Civil War

By LouisGee

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.

  • Brown v. the Board of Education

    A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

  • Emmett Till's death

    Was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.

  • The Little Rock Nine

    The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

  • Freedom Riders

    The 1961 Freedom Rides sought to test a 1960 decision by the Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia that segregation of interstate transportation facilities, including bus terminals, was unconstitutional as well.

  • Medgar Evers Assassination

    An American civil rights activist in Mississippi and the state's field secretary of the NAACP. Was then Assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

  • Malcolm X Assassination

    an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence.

  • Loving v. Virginia

    Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.