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Brown v Board of Education
decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court where it was ruled that laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. Even if schools that are segregated are equal in quality -
White Citizens Council
this organization was concentrated in the south. It was full of white supremacist, and an extreme right organization. -
Brown v Board of Education ii
A year after the Supreme Court ordered that racial segregation in schools is illegal, the court told schools to integrate the schools faster -
Lynching of Emmmett Till
A 14 year old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman in a grocery store. He became an icon for the civil rights movement because of the brutality of his attackers. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama was arrested for it. This act of nonviolent resistance started the Montgomery bus boycott. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a protest against the segregated bus system in Montgomery. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement -
Martin Luther King House Bombing
Segregationalists were mad about the success of the Mongomery Bus boycott so they bombed MLKs house. -
Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops
President Eisenhower sent federal troops to little rock Alabama to protect students and restore order. After a year of integration in the schools, the governor shut them down. -
SCLC founded
SLCL stands for Southern Christian Leadership Conference which is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLCs first president was Martin Luther King Jr. and he is still associated with it. SCLC had a large role in the American civil rights movement. -
SNCC formed
This is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee which was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States. It focused on focused on black power, and draft resistance to the Vietnam War. -
Greensboro sit in
A civil rights protest where young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to colleges throughout the South. -
Albany Georgia “failure”
This was an attempt to desegregate public spaces. It challenged racial segregation in Albany. MLK and SCLC joined the movement eventually. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. They did this to protest segregated bus terminals. -
White mob attacks federal marshals in Montgomery
The police left a bus of freedom riders right before it entered the Montgomery, Alabama terminal. At the terminal, a white mob attacked the riders of the bus with baseball bats and clubs. -
Bailey v Patterson
African-Americans in Mississippi brought this to a federal district court for all African-Americans living in Mississippi. They wanted to enforce their constitutional rights to nonsegregated service in interstate and intrastate transportation. -
MLK goes to Birmingham jail
King went to Birmingham jail because of the injustice that was happening there, and he was invited. He sent a letter from Birmingham jail which talked about the importance of preaching nonviolence. -
Equal Pay Act
requires that men and women receive equal pay for equal work. The jobs dont need to be identical but they must be somewhat equal. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot by Byron De La Beckwith, a white surpremecist. -
March on Washington and I Have a Dream
March on Washington was held in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. During this MLK gave his famous I have a Dream Speech -
Bombing of a church in Birmingham
This was an act of terrorism from white supremacists. They bombed a church with a predominantly black congregation. This church also served as a place for civil rights leaders. -
John F Kennedy Assassination
35th President of the United States and was assassinated while driving down Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas Texas. The shooter was Lee Harvey Osswald. -
Freedom Summer
This was a volunteer campaign, its purpose was to get as many African American voters to register to vote -
24th Amendment
Does not allow Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax -
Killing of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner
these are also known as the freedom summer murders. Included 3 activists who were abducted and murdered in Mississippi -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution that outlaws discrimination based on race, religion, sex, or national origin. It does not allow unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations -
Malcom X Assassination
Malcolm X, was a human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. Thomas Hagan was one of the assassins who shot Malcom X -
selma to montgomery march
State Legislatures in the South had passed discriminatory requirements and practices that had disenfranchised many of the African Americans across the South which lead to a march from Selma to Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act was made to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Black Panthers
this was originally the Black Panther Party for self-defense founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense. -
Bombing of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
The Ku Klux Klan bombed Rev. Fred Shutlesworth home. He was also a civil rights activist leader. He was hoe at the time of the bombing with two family members. -
Loving v Virginia
Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married and fought to stopped laws banning interracial marriages. -
Minneapolis Riots
These riots were acts of arson, assaults, and vandalism. The violence lasted for three nights and is often linked with other race-related demonstrations. -
Detroit Riots
This is also known as the 12th street riot. This was the bloodiest incident of that summer. This riot was caused by African Americans anger and frustration about unemployment. -
MLK assassination
MLK was shot while on the balcony of Lorraine motel, he was rushed to hospital but called dead an hour later -
Assassination of Robert F Kennedy
presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Earlier that night he was declared the winner in the South Dakota and California presidential primaries.
