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Events of the Civil Rights Movement- 19th & 20 centuries
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the 15th Ammendment
The 15th ammendment allowed black men the right to vote. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." The ammendant was never fully recongized for a century till the voting rights act of 1965. This discontinued the southern states from defranchising African Americans by the uses of poll taxes, literacy tests and other means. -
1st Jim Crow Law
In 1881, Tennessee passed the first Jim Crow law, which segregated train cars. Other Southern states soon followed. -
Brown vs. Board of Eduction
Due to overcrowded condtions and a failing facility, students at Moton High School protested against Jim Crow laws of school segregation. The NAACP joined their battle, proceeding with five cases challenging the school system.
( Date: U.s Supreme Court handed down their desicision that the education of black children apart from whites where unconstitional) -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger aboard a bus. She had been returning from a meeting from Highlander Center in Tennesee where non-violent civil disobedience had been discussed. Rosa Parks was later arrested. This caused many Civil Rights Leaders to form the Montegomery Bus Boycott. -
Freedom Rides
Civil rights activists sat on buses to create seating patterns to try to stop segregation. -
Albany Movement
A failure, the movement was lead by leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr . The movement wanted to focuse mainly on freedom rides but other goals were integrated. -
March on Washington
In 1963 the march was a collaborative effort including all major civil rights organiztions, such as the more progreesive wing of labor movement, and other liberal organization. The goals of the march where ; meaningful civil rights laws, full and fair employment , a massive federal works program, decent housing, the right to vote and adequate integrated eduction. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
In the summer of 1964 the council of federated organizations brought nearly 1,000 activists to Mississippi. Most of them white college students—to join with local black activists to register voters, teach in "Freedom Schools," and organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. -
MLK awarded Noble Peace Prize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYsMartin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at 35 years old,naming him the youngest to be awarded. -
Boycott of New Orleans by American Football League players
After the players were denied services to some hotels and business, and the white cab-drivers refused to carry black passengers both white and black players lobbied for the boycott of New Orleans. Although the discrimanitary practices were illegal this became the first boycott of a professional sports event of an entire city. -
Memphis, MLK assassination and the Poor People's March
Rev. James Lawson invited Martin Luther King jr. to Memphis, Tennessee, in March 1968 to support a sanitation workers' strike. These workers launched a campaign for union representation after two workers were accidentally killed on the job, and Mlk considered their struggle to be a vital part of the Poor People's Campaign he was plannining a day after. delivering his "i've been at the Mountaintop" sermon he was assasinated.
