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Brown v. Board of Education
-The court case that had allowed seperate but equal facilities was Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896
-The case started becuase Linda Brown was denied from her elementary school because she was black. The segregation in schools violated equal protection stated in the Fourteenth Amendment.
-The result of the case was that the Court ruled that states make state laws to prohibit segregated schools. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
-Rosa Parks was sitting in a white passengers seat on a bus and refused to get out of the seat
-The result of her refusal was she got arrested, but was let out on bail. That night, there were boycotts on the Montgomery buses. Later on, Rosa helped end segregation on public facilities. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
-Dwight D. Eisenhower (was a former President) passed the law.
-The bill gave African Americans the right to vote -
Events at Little Rock, Arkansas
-The governer of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, ordered the National Guard to prevent any African American child to enroll at the all white Central High School.
-Eisenhower went and talked to the governer, saying that segregation in schools was illegal. The governer did not listen, and as 9 African American children enrolled the school was rioting. Eisenhower sent in paratroopers to restore order in Little Rock and allow the children to enroll with no violence or discrimonation. -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
-The Freedom Riders were a group of black and white civil rights activists, who travelled around the south in buses to protest segregation.
-The Freedom Riders were put together by, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
-The campus erruptted into complete chaos. There were riots, that ended up with 2 people dead and hundreds of others who were injured.
-The Kennedy Administration had to order in around 30,000 National Guardsmen, to end the chaos -
Medgar Evans Assassinated
-Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist, who helped with voter registration, demonstrations and boycotts of companies who implemented discrimination
-Since he was such a high up demonstrater in his group, he became the target for many. He and his family recived many threats but on June 12th, he was shot in his driveway -
March on Washington
-The purpose was to pressure the Kennedy Administration to pass a strong civil rights law, it was successful
-The famous speech that was given in Washington, was Martin Luther King's, I Have a Dream speech -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
-The law was proposed by Kennedy, but when he was assassinated, Lyndon Johnson would pass the law in hopes to start a "a new chapter in law"
-The law stated that discrimination in hiring and public accomendations was illegal -
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March to Selma
-The point of the march, was to register black voters in the South
-When they reached Montgomery, they were met with violence by local and state authorities
-They walked for 3 days to reach the state capital. The marchers were protected by the Alabama National Guard. The march was successful and was the reason on why there should be a Voting Rights Act -
Thurgood Marshall First Black Supreme Court Justice
-Before he became a Supreme Court justice, he was the key for ending legal segregation
-It was a monumental event because he was the first black justice and it gave others hope that someday they could work high up in law too when segregation no longer exsisted. -
Assassination of MLK Jr.
-He was standing on the balcony at his motel, and a sniper shot him right in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. A few days after he was shot, riots broke out across American cities.
-His assassination had a major impact on both black and white people. He was the speaker for blacks to show the troubles they were going through and how badly segregation was affecting them. For whites, though it brought many protesters, they saw him as a great speaker.
