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Sweatt v.Painter ⚖️
Category:Legislation/Supreme Court Case
Description:This case started on June 5, 1950, by the United States Supreme Court that holding an Equal Protection Clause bear the separate but equal doctrine regarding law school admissions.Herman Swatt was ignored to the University of Texas Law School on the basis of his race. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott✊
Category:Protest
:Description:Boycott of Montgomery buses African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted city buses as part of civil rights demonstration in order to denounce segregated sealing.The boycott, which took place between 1955 and 1956, is seen as the country's first significant protest against segregation. -
Emmett Till’s Murder⚖️
Category:Legislation/Supreme Court Case
:Description:A 14-year African American child named Emmett Louis Till was kidnapped, tortured and killed in Mississippi in 1955 after being charged with insulting Carolyn Bryant in her family's grocery business.His murder's ferocity and the fact that his assailants were found not guilty brought to light the long history of violent discrimination against African Americans in the United States. -
Little Rock Nine Crisis⚖️
Category:Supreme Court Case
:Description:The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students that registered in the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, which had previously only accepted white students, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school served as a test for the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that segregation in public schools were unconstitutional. -
Cooper v. Aaron⚖️
Category:Legislation/Supreme Court Case
:Description:The Supreme Court declared in Cooper v. Aaron that Arkansas could not enact legislation that would have overturned its decision in Brown v. Board of education that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.The Supreme Court declared that its interpretation of the Constitution was the "supreme law of the land" and that the states had abide by its decisions. -
Greensboro Sit-In✊
Category:Protest
:Description:Young African American students in Greensboro, North Carolina, staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960 and refused to leave after being refused service. This action was the beginning of the Greensboro sit-in protest. -
Integration of the University of Mississippi
Category:No Violence
:Description:Howard Meredith submitted an application for admission to the University of Mississippi in January 1961.On May 25, 1961, he received a letter of denial. On September 10, 1962, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Meredith's favor after eighteen months of legal disputes, allowing his admittance. -
Heart of Atlanta Motel vs. US✊
Category:Protest
:Description:The Act of 1964's anti- discrimination prohibitions are extended by the Commerce Clause to hotels that welcome visitors from other states.The court decided that the government could forbid the motel from discriminating on the basis of race under the Commerce Clause in a unanimous ruling written by justice Clark. -
James Meredith’s March Against Fear💣
Category:Violence by Protesters
:Description:Meredith made a decision to embark on a 270-mile, 21-day solo march down U.S. Highway 51 from the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee to the Mississippi State Capitol n Jackson in protest of the racial violence in his home state. He anticipated that the march would encourage African Americans in Mississippi to become politically aware and subsequently register to vote. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.⚖️
Category:Legislation/Supreme Court Case
:Description:The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most well-known figure in the American Civil Rights movement, was fatally shot on April 4, 1968, while he was standing on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had gone to organize a march of striking sanitation workers. More than 100 American inner cities erupted in rioting, looting, and bloodshed after King's death. -
Shirley Chisolm’s Presidential Campaign✊
Category:protest
:Description:The first African American woman rejected to congress, Chisolm served for seven terms starting in 1969.Chisolm, a barbados and Guyana-born immigrant's daughter, had a huge influence on anti-poverty legislation and educational reform. -
Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools⚖️
Category:Legislation/Supreme Court Case
:Description:April 20, 1971, which was the case Charlotte-Mecklenburg happened, the United States Supreme Court opened a housing program that allow the seed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. -
Hank Aaron’s Home Run Record🏆
Category:Achievement
Description:Hank Aaron's of Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run on April 8, 1974.A crowd for about 53, 775 people of Atlanta Fulton stadium.However, African American Hank Aaron received so many death threats during his baseball's most distinguished records. -
Barbara Jordan’s Address at the Democratic National Convention💣
Category:Violence by opposition
:Description:Barbara Jordan was the first African American to deliver the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention. -
University of California Regents vs. Bakke⚖️
Category: Court Case
:Description:A Supreme Court case, University of California v. Bakke is about a case in which court found in which used as definite and exclusive basis for an admission violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14 th amendment.
