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Brown v. Board of Education
This case involved Oliver Brown and took place in Topeka, Kansas. The NAACE combines 5 cases, from Kansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and district of Columbia into one case for the supreme court. The supreme court decided, 9-0, the separation of children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. However, many of these black student will never go to school with the white kids. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett’s was a 14 year old boy in Mississippi with his cousin in a store. When he whistled at a white women named Carolyn Bryant. Three days later Roy Bryant and his brother kidnapped him and tortured him. They detached an eye, cut his ear off, bar wire wrapped around his neck, weighted down by 75 pound cotton gin fan, and thrown into water. He passed away and Roy and J.W. Milam didn’t get punished for it. -
Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott
Rosa was a 42 years old in Montgomery, Alabama, when she failed to move seats on the bus. Therefore, she got fired from her $10 paying job. Martin Luther King Jr. and the church send out flyers to boycott the bus system on December 5th. The bus ran empty for 381 days. Leading the Supreme Court to rule that bus had to let black ride. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
This event involved MLK and pastors and took place in Atlanta, Georgia. A meeting of black churches pastors coordinated an event for black people. MLK was elected the 1st president. This group use the Vietnam war and provided better jobs for blacks. -
Little Rock 9
In Little Rock, Arkansas nine African American students wanted to go to the white schools. The government of Arkansas went to the national Guard to stop them. President Eisenhower cells in 1,200 military men to escort these students from home to class,1959 all schools fully integrated. -
Greensboro sit ins
In Greensboro, North Carolina 4 students go to woodwork’s to buy items. Then go sit at the linter counter. They are refused service and told to leave, but they stayed. Day after day they came back and do the same thing. The amount of students grew over the days till they reached 1,000. -
Freedom Riders
The freedom Riders were made up of 436 diverse group of volunteers from 39 states. Individuals in 60 separate freedom rides. They started in Washington D.C they go to the drop south to desegregated bus stations, diners, and hotels. In Amistan, Alabama black by KKK tries Sl asked five banned buses burned beating town after town. -
March on Washington
In Washington D.C. 250,000 people marched in Washington D.C. Peaceful and respectful protest for jobs and freedoms. Martin Luther king Jr. Gave his quote “I have a dream” speech MLKJ was the last speaker of that day! -
Civil Rights Act
This event took place in Washington D.C and involved Lyndon B.Johnson and Martin Luther king jr. They enabled the federal government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation based on race, color, religion, or holi o al origin private businesses or public facilities. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcom Little was a civil right leader who was part of the Nation of Islam. He wanted black people to believe in themselves and start their own business. He was in Audubon ballroom in New York when he got shot 21 times. Thomas Hagan convicted of murder. -
Selena to Montgomery Marches(Bloody Sunday)
This event took place in Selma, Alabama. 600 people with John Lewis wanted to walk 54 miles to Montgomery to register to vote. At the Edmund bridge. Then troopers brutally beat them. -
Voting Right Act
In Washington D.C. enabling the right to vote or African Americans any discrimination in voting. Now a federal matter not state. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther king Jr. was striking protest in Memphis. Then went back to Lorraine motel, in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray shot him in the lower right side, with a rifle. Therefore, James Earl was sentenced for 19 years. The death marks the end of the civil right movement.