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Plessy V. Ferguson
This court case of the late 1800's which basically stated that it was okay to segregate. The phrase "separate" but equal came from this court case. This event is super important because it showed how unequally we treated African Americans. -
Brown V. Board of Education
This court case claimed that segregating and making white and black schools were unconstitutional. Basically, the supreme court went against the decisions of Plessy V Ferguson. This was the small victory at the beginning of the civil rights movement. -
Rosa Parks & The Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Rosa Parks, the woman that got tired of submitting to the racial discrimination of the white man, and got thrown in jail for sitting in the front of a bus. She then initiated a bus boycott in Montgomery. This impacted how the bus lost money and the buses were desegregated afterwards. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy who was visiting relatives out in Money. When he spoke to a white woman and was suspected to be flirting with her, the woman's husband and half brother went out, abducted the him, and brutality beat him. This brought up attention to the long list of violent treatment that African Americans have suffered. -
Founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference & Martin Luther King
The SCLC is an African American civil rights movement led by it's president Martin Luther King Jr. King led this organization to get civil rights by peaceful protest. This is important because it's one of the first time we see a huge amount of people getting together and protesting peacefully. -
Little Rock Nine & Central High School
The little rock nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled in a white school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The time that they spent there though, was constant harassment from their peers because god forbid 9 black kids try to learn.This showed the people that the government was willing to help African Americans out. -
Greensboro Sit-Ins
The Greensboro Sit-Ins was when a group of black students sat in the white section at the dinner and calmly asked to be served. Of course this was frowned upon because white people. They sat there for about 4 days and most were mistreated during the time, afterwards the store was closed and the students were arrested. This showed the unequal treatment that African Americans had to go through, even to just get a simple meal. -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commite started in in April of 1960 with its main goal was for the blacks that lived in the north to help out blacks that lived in the south. With its formation many whites from the north helped fund the SNCC's work in the south. With this you could see that whites and blacks could coexist together without prejudice and that was crucial to the Civil Rights movement. -
Freedom Riders
Began on May 4th 1961, it was an event in which 6 white people and 7 black people took a bus from Washington D.C. to the south. At first they were only met with minor hostility, but deeper they went the more violence they encountered. This event shows that even whites could be treated the same way as blacks just for supporting them. -
The March On Washington
The March on Washington was held in 1963 on August 28th. It was held as a stand up for civil rights for blacks and to stop racism. This was a huge important event for the civil rights movement in which MLK delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act
This act was passed on July 2, 1964 to outlaw discrimination. With the passing of this new found act you couldn't discriminate against race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It's very important to the Civil rights movement because everything that was fought for was now finally earned. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
On February 21, 1965 Malcolm X was assassinated for being a Civil Rights activist. With his death came the loss of a major leader for the civil rights and many people under him now turned to MLK. It's important to the civil rights movement because he was the first civil rights activist to be assassinated. -
Voting Rights Act
In 1965 this act was passed and it allowed for any person of anything ethnicity could vote. It was signed by Lyndon B Johnson and let minorities take political parts of government. This is important because without this act, Barrack Obama ,may have never have become president. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at Memphis Hotel on April 4, 1968. James Earl Ray was a white man who hated black influence. Its important because King showed that world that the impossible is possible if you put your mind to it. He also taught the world that peaceful protest works.
