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Slavery
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Escape of Harriet Tubman
She was a slave that escaped using the underground railroad. She got money so she could come back and bring more slaves to freedom. She helped free 300 slaves. -
Civil War
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/
It happened because the Confederate states wanted to break off of the United states. The Confederates wanted slavery but the States didn't. The Confederates lost the war and slavery. -
Founding of NAACP
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history
The NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. -
Brown v. Board of Education
It ended legal segregation in public schools. It was a series of cases that all involved separation of colors in schools. This collection of cases was the culmination of years of legal groundwork laid by the NAACP in its work to end segregation. -
Rosa Parks's bus boycott
Rosa Parks a black woman that wouldn't give up her seat on a public bus. She got arested because of it. This caused black people to boycott the busing system. The busses lost alot of buisness and decided to change the rule of blacks having to give up there seats to whites. -
Little Rock 9
Nine African American students—Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls—attempted to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The students, known as the Little Rock Nine. A white mob gathered in front of the school, and Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering. -
Little Rock 9
A team of NAACP lawyers won a federal district court injunction to prevent the governor from blocking the students’ entry. -
I Have a Dream speech
It was a speech that Martin Luther King Jr. made. -
Civil rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation's benchmark civil rights legislation. It ended the application of "Jim Crow" laws, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Court held that racial segregation purported to be "separate but equal" was constitutional. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
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Martin Luther King assassination
