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Brown V.S Board of Education
A mom took the case to court in order for her daughter to get to school safely. It ended up going into a debate/argument of colored schools. Eventually state laws were established that separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were arrested for the murder and found not guilty by an all-white jury. After the admitted to committing the murder. -
Rosa Parks
On this very day Rosa Parks sat down on the bus after a long day. She refused to move to the back of the bus after a white guy told her to move. She was soon arrested and made the news. -
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, comprised of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was established. King was the organization's president. The SCLC proved to be a major force in organizing the civil rights movement based off nonviolence and civil disobedience. -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee provided young blacks with a more prominent place in the civil rights movement. The SNCC later grew into a more radical organization under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael. -
James Meredith
James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy sent 5,000 federal troops to contain the violence and riots surrounding the incident. -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers, was murdered outside his home in Jackson, Miss. Byron De La Beckwith was tried twice in 1964, both trials resulting in hung juries. Thirty years later, he was convicted of murdering Evers. -
March on Washington
About 200,000 people joined MLK's march. They all gathered at the LIncoln Memorial to listen to Martin's "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Church Bombing
https://youtu.be/kfcExiQVzLs
Four young girls, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins, attending Sunday school were killed when a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a popular location for civil rights meetings. -
24th Ammendment
The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax. This originally had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote. -
Freedom Summer
https://youtu.be/khoArqA8rDM
The Mississippi Freedom Summer Project was organized in 1964, four civil rights organizations: the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE); the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The project was to carry out a unified voter registration program in the state of Mississippi -
Civil Rights Act
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnson-signs-civil-rights-act
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion. The law allowed the federal government to enforce desegregation and prohibits discrimination in public facilities, in government and in employment. -
Malcom X Assasination
https://youtu.be/yhHgje9UNtc
Malcolm Little world-renowned black nationalist leader was assassinated in Manhattan. He was a Black Muslim Minister, revolutionary black freedom fighter, civil rights activist and for a time the national spokesperson for the Nation of Islam. -
Bloody Sunday
https://youtu.be/Vn6uQBDAr_U
Blacks began a march to Montgomery in support of voting rights, but were stopped at the Edmund Pettus Bridge by a police blockade in Selma, State troopers and the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, some mounted on horseback, awaited them. they attacked the peaceful demonstrators with billy clubs, tear gas and bull whips, driving them back into Selma. -
Voting Rights Act
Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal. This act made it easier for African Americans to vote.
