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Brown v. Board Of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson was the case that enacted the separated but equal policy for Whites and African Americans across the country. The African American parents of Topeka, Kansas went to court to get the right to let their kids to go too school with whites. Brown v. Board of The Education ruled that it was in fact unconstitutional for kids to be separated because of their color -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks after a long day at work was on the bus ride home sitting on a segregated bus, at the next stop a white man gets on the bus and by law Rosa is supposed to get up and give him the seat. Rosa didn't do that in fact she refused even after being asked multiple times to get up. Rosa Parks was then arrested and fined $14 dollar ($125 now a days). -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In Montgomery Alabama thousands of African Americans were forced to give up their seat to a white if there wasn't enough room on the bus. Finally they had enough. For 381 days African Americans and some Whites didn't ride the buses nearly shutting down the bus company until they finally gave African Americans to sit wherever they please. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. This act stopped the south and any other race prejudice counties from stopping people from voting based on color. -
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas had always been a segregated community up until 1957 when 9 African American high school students attended an all white school for the first time in Southern history. The students were met with nasty words of hate and rocks being thrown at them. The President sent hundreds of soldiers to go and protect the Little Rock Nine. -
Attack Of Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders started to defy the Jim Crowe Laws to get respect and equality. CORE and SNCC mostly supported the Freedom Riders during their revolt against segregation. African American and Whites alike were fighting together against this injustice. -
James Meredith enroll at Ole Miss
James Meredith was African American that was enrolling into an all white college and clearly most of the southern government wasn't happy about it. So much so that the Governor Ross Barnett showed up and publicly turned him away. Finally the Kennedy's sent 500 troops to the scene and by October James was allowed to enroll in Ole Miss University. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist and a huge member in the NAACP. After the Till case Evers was in his driveway when white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
The March On Washington
The March on Washington was a protest to show that African Americans are equal to whites and that they should be treated the same. The famous Martin Luther King Jr. speech "I Have A Dream" was delivered at this march. -
Schoolgirls Killed in Bombing
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley. All of these young girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. The bombing was set by 4 KKK members in Birmingham Alabama. Dozens of people were hurt but only 4 were killed in the explosion. In the 24 hours after the explosion many white people cars and store windows were broken by rocks to show the rebellion. -
Civil Rights Workers Slain by Klansmen
Known as the Mississippi Freedom Summer Murder. The three men that were killed were chased in their car, abducted, shot, and buried in a earthen damn by a member of the KKK. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
After President Kennedy was assassinated President Johnson wanted to follow in his path for equality of races. The Civil Rights of 1964 was passed by President Johnson. The law stated that no business can/can't hire, fire, and serve someone based on their race. -
March to Selma
Selma walker's wanted to bring attention to African Americans getting to vote more easily. At the beginning of the march 600 marcher crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge but the peaceful protesters were met with violence by the state troopers. The outcome was that many were left hurt, but they showed the world what needed to change. -
Willie Brewster Murdered
In Alabama where racial segregation was still at large lived Willie Brewster. On July 19, 1965 Brewster was on his driveway when Damon Strange drove past with his friends and shot at him. MLK said that he wanted to come but that he wouldn't because of supposed bomb threats. -
Vernon Dahmer Murder
In Mississippi where at the time it was very tense between the whites and the African Americans Vernon Dahmer was a white civil right supporter. With this came a lot of threats, so much so that his and his wife would take shifts making sure that no one get through the window or see what they were doing during the night. On one cold night in January KKK members threw mini gas jugs, while his wife kids got out Vernon got out with severe burns on his lower body dying a hours later in the hospital. -
Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice
Before becoming a supreme court justice Marshall was President Kennedy's Court of Appeal 1961 and President Johnson's solicitor general 1965.I think it was important because it showed that African Americans can do anything Whites do. -
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
While standing on his balcony on the second floor of the hotel MLK was shot in the neck and pronounced dead an hour later. Americans African and White both had an opinion of him so either way he was big talk.
