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Brown v Board
This court case was a major step forward in the civil rights movement. This case ended the segregation of schools ruling that separate is inherently unequal. -
White Citizens Council
The WCC was a white supremacist group very opposed to the civil rights movement. This southern group did a lot of hateful things towards the protesters including beating them up at non-violent sit-ins. -
Brown v Board of Education II
This was the second portion of brown vs board. This case made segregation of schools illegal and said that all schools MUST desegregate with "deliberate speed" -
Lynching of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a boy from the north who was visiting his aunt in the south. During this visit, he said a white woman looked pretty, and the women's husband and brother murdered him. He is famous for his open casket. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was a leader in the civil rights movement. On Dec 1st, she planned to not give her seat up to a white person. This got her arrested and the outrage sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a citywide boycott of all public transportation. People would walk or carpool everywhere. The city realized that black people were a huge source of income with public transportation so the desegregated the busses. -
Martin Luther King House Bombing
White supremacists were mad that the Montgomery bus boycott was a success, so they found it necessary to bomb the leader of the movement's house. The leader was MLK. Even after his house had been bombed, he still preached non-violence. -
Bombing of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
On christmas of 1956, KKK members bombed the house of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. Shuttlesworth was a civil rights activist. Nobody died but his house was gone and the church next to his house was damaged. -
SCLC Founded
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a civil rights organization that focused on the religious aspect of the movement. This was one of the organizations that MLK worked with a lot. -
Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops
After Brown v Board desegregated schools, 9 brave high schoolers attended Little Rock Central for the first time. They were abused and bullied so the president had to send in the national guard to protect them. This event showed that the president was for the civil rights movement. -
SNCC Formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed and it was a group run by students. This organization was the younger generations way to help with the movement. -
Greensboro sit ins
These sit-ins were a series of sit-ins that were all non-violent. Because these sit-ins were so successful, they sparked a non-violent sit-in revolution and many more happened around the country. -
Freedom Rides
The freedom rides were people that traveled on interstate busses and fought for freedom. One bus was bombed in the process and everyone who lived was arrested for 2 months. -
White mob attacks federal marshals in Montgomery
As the freedom riders were entering Montgomery, all policemen that had been following the bus dipped. When the bus arrived, an angry white mob was there waiting and no police to enforce the law. The protesters were beaten with bats and clubs. -
Bailey v Patterson
This court case rules that segregation on interstate travel and public transportation is illegal. This case was also ruled unanimously -
Albany Georgia “failure”
The Albany movement was a movement set to desegregate public spaces in Georgia. It is deemed a failure due to its unsuccessful attempt at desegregating public spaces in Southwest Georgia. -
Equal Pay Act
This act states that men and women must be paid the same for the same amount of work at the same company. One loophole that the court foresaw and fixed is "the jobs need not be identical, but the same amount of work" -
Kennedy sends in Federal Troops
Schools in Alabama were extremely segregated and the people really did not want desegregation. President Kennedy sent in federal troops to protect the students and help desegregate. The governor of Alabama however, did not let it happen for 2 days until he was held at gunpoint by the president. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers is a civil rights worker and was the field secretary of the naacp. After a meeting with the naacp, he left with a sign that said "Jim crow must go" and he was shot in the back of the head. -
March on Washington “I have a Dream”
The march on Washington was one of the biggest civil rights protests. Over 250000 people marched on the lincoln memorial. This is when MLK game his famous I have a dream speech. -
Bombing of a church in Birmingham
The bombing of a church in Birmingham was a white supremacist hate attack on black people. On September 15th a bomb was thrown into a black church named 16th Street Baptist Church. 4 people were killed. -
Assasination of JFK
John F Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. On Nov 11, 1963, JFKs open-top convertible was shot at 3 times by Lee Harvey Oswald. The Vp Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president shortly after. -
24th Amendment
This amendment to the constitution removed the poll tax to vote. This allowed more blacks to vote because they were the majority of the group that could not pay the poll. -
Freedom Summer
Also known as the summer campaign, Freedom summer was a voting rights movement. The goal of this campaign was to increase the number of registered black voters in Mississippi. -
Killing of Goodman, Chaney, Schwerner
Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were 3 civil rights workers from Mississippi. The 3 men were pulled over for a speeding ticket, and after they left the police station, they were never seen again. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This was another major court case in the civil rights movement. This case made discrimination on any lever illegal. The result of this case was the desegregation of schools, employment, and public places. -
MLK goes to a Birmingham jail
MLK was in Alabama fighting for equal voting rights when he was arrested and brought to a jail in Birmingham. In this jail, he writes a famous letter called "King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail" -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcom X was a civil rights leader with the same amount of respect as MLK. Malcom X was the violent leader of the movement. He was killed by someone in his own religious group. -
Selma to Montgomery March
These marchers fought for the right to continue to protest for voting rights. In the end, the president removed the barriers that prevented blacks from voting. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act banned many illegal methods the south attempted to use to block blacks from voting. One example of the things that were banned is literacy tests. -
Black Panthers Formed
The black panthers are a group of civil rights warriors based in Oakland. Their main objective is to stop police brutality and they do it violently. -
Loving v Virginia
This supreme court case was ruled quickly and unanimously. It removed the ban from interracial couples getting married. This ban was put in place by the 14th amendment. -
Minneapolis Riots
On this night, racial tension in north Minneapolis were very high and things got very violent. These riots lasted 3 days, and buildings were burned and a lot of assault and vandalism occurred. -
Detroit Riots
This riot on 12th street was the bloodiest event of the summer. There were many confrontations between black citizens and police officers. 43 people died. -
Assasination of MLK
MLK was seen as the leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Because of this, many of the white supremacists that opposed the civil rights movement also hated him. That is why, while he was giving a speech on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Tennesee, he was shot and killed by James Earl Ray. -
Assassination of Robert “Bobby” Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy was a politition and worked under his brother JFK. He was killed in a ballroom after a speech to his followers. The person who killed him was named Sirhan Sirhan.
