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Brown v Board of Education
This was a very big case for the Supreme Court, they ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools were illegal. -
Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops
This order sends federal troops over to Little Rock AR, to help ensure that the integration of central High School happens. -
White Citizens Council
This was an well integrated group of white supremacists, they were concentrated in the south. -
Brown v Board of Education II
This was an add on to Brown v Board of Education where the supreme court made the schools integrate black children into the school system "with all deliberate speed" -
Lynching of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was 14 and killed because he was seen going into the grocery store and talking to a white woman in a bad way. This was taken way out of perpo -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Oh the way home from work Rosa Parks sat on a bus and was asked to move from the seat by a white person. after denying for awhile she was arrested. -
Martin Luther King House Bombing
A group of segregationists went to MLK's house and bombed his house. -
Montgomery bus boycott
From Dec 5, 1955 - Dec, 20th, 2956 there was a humongus boycott on busses at the end of the boycott they got all of there demands and went down as the most succesful boycott to the date. -
Bombing of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
On this day several KKK members went to the house of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and tried to kill him with a bomb. But luckily no one was injured inside the house! -
SCLC Founded
This is when the SCLC was founded and they started on their jorney to changing lives. -
SNCC Formed
SNCC or Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was created today, they aim to help students realize that what they are doing is wrong and that it is just the parents. -
Greensboro Sit Ins
The Greensboro Sit Ins are a bunch of instances grouped together. it was when a group of African American students went and sat in a white only lunch counter. -
White mob attacks federal marshals in Montgomery
During a freedom rid through montgomery, alabama a bus was attacked by a mob of three hundred. They were surrounded and brutally attacked the riders. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Rides were a series of events where 2 buses full of African American and some White activists go into the deep south and try to make a difference. -
Bailey v Patterson
This is a couple African American men bringing a case to the federal court to enforce their constitutional rights to nonsegergated service. -
Albany Georgia “failure”
In November a group called the Albany Movement was created. It was a desegregation and voters rights group and resulted in jailing more then 1000 African Americans looking for change in the world. -
MLK goes to a Birmingham jail
MLk was arrested and sent to jail because of protesting. while he was in jail he wrote a letter, he says "I am here because injustice is here". -
Kennedy sends in Federal Troops
JFK sent troops to the University of Alabama in attempts to force desegregation. After much time 2 African American student enrolled. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
American civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot and killed by Byron De La Beckwith. He was standing in his own driveway. -
March on Washington “I have a Dream”
The I have a dream speech has gone down in history as one of the most famous speeches of all time. Standing on the steps of washington MLK made a difference. -
Bombing of a church in Birmingham
In the early morning on september 15th a bomb exploded before the morning mass. Tragically 4 young girls were killed by the explosion and many others injured. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
On November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while sitting in his car during a motorcade. Former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald was the one who shot him. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was the summer when voter registration amed to increase the number of registered black voters. -
XXIV (24th) Amendment
This makes it illegal for both congress and the state to charge anyone a poll tax or any other types of tax to vote. -
Killing of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michel schwerner were abducted and brutally murdered on the night of june 21th. All of them were civil rights workers. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This Act outlaws the discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
While at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, Malcolm X was assassinated by Rival Black Muslims. He was in the middle of addressing his organization of Afro-American Unity. -
Selma to Montgomery March
In response to Jackson's death, MLK and SCLC worked together and made a March in his name. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This Act Prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Black Panthers Formed
The Black Panther Party was a party for Self-Defense, a hugly revolutionary political organization. -
Loving v Virginia
This U.S. Supreme Court decision made it so that interracial marriages were legal. -
Minneapolis Riots
On this horrific night racial tension erupted and several acts of arson, assaults, and vandalism ensued. -
Detroit Riots
Also known as the 12th Street Riot, the bloodiest incident in the "Long, hot summer of 1967". -
Assassination of MLK
At 6:05 Martin Luther King jr was shot and killed. Hw was standing on the second floor at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Assassination of Robert “Bobby” Kennedy
At the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles Robert F. Kennedy was shot and later died from the gunshot wound. -
Equal Pay Act
This is the Act the makes companies give Men and Women equal pay.
