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BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCATION
In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. One of the pillars of the civil rights movement was Brown v. Board of Education, which proved that "separate but equal" education and other services were not in fact equal. -
EMMET TILL
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered on August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.After nearly killing him, the two men shot him in the head, gouged out his eye, and threw his body into the river after tying it to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire. -
ROSA PARKS
WhenRosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, to a white man, she helped kick off the civil rights movement in the United States. The local Black community's leaders were inspired to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott by her actions. The boycott, which was led by a young Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., lasted more than a year and ended when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Parks also lost her job during this tIme -
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. The SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who played an important role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
LITTLE ROCK 9
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African-American students who entered Little Rock High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis involving Arkansas governor Orval Faubus. -
GREENSBORO NORTH CAROLINA
4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworths to be served. They were refused service, continued to "sit on" and others joined ,the protest spread to other towns. It affected the country that it can enforced and stationed country wide. -
STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE
During the 1960s, the primary means by which students in the United States became committed to the civil rights movement was through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.In response to student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters across the South in 1960, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was established. Over time, it became the primary means by which students participated in the civil rights movement. -
FREEDOM RIDERS
Freedom Riders were groups of civil rights activists who were both white and African American. In 1961, they took part in bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals. At bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina, and other Southern states, Freedom Riders attempted to use "whites-only" restrooms and lunch counters. Along their routes, the groups encountered arresting police officers and horrific violence from white protesters. -
MARCH ON WASHINGTON
The March on Washington, also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a massive protest march that took place in August 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Its purpose was to draw attention to the challenges and inequalities that African Americans still face a century after their emancipation. In addition, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the now-famous "I Have a Dream" speech on this day. -
CIVIL RIGHT ACT (1964)S
This law, which President Lyndon Johnson signed into law on July 2, 1964, made employment discrimination illegal, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and prohibited discrimination in public places. Since Reconstruction, it was the most expansive civil rights legislation. This law was to support the integrations between the different races in schools and other public places. -
MARCH ON SELMA
The Selma to Montgomery march was one of a number of civil rights demonstrations that took place in Alabama in 1965. Alabama is a southern state with racist policies that are deeply ingrained. In an effort to register Black voters in the South, protesters marching 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital, faced deadly violence from local authorities and white vigilante groups in March that year. -
VOTING RIGHTS ACTS OF 1965
The goal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law, was to remove state and local legal barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their 15th Amendment-protected right to vote. One of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in American history is the Voting Rights Act. It was one of the amendments with the most impact in the country.