Civil rights

  • 1963 BCE

    Washington, D.C.

    Washington, D.C.
    250,000 people matched in Washington, D.C. it was peaceful and respectful protest for jobs and freedom Martin Luther king gives his I have a dream speech MLK was the last speaker of the day
  • Board of education

    Board of education
    NAACP combines 5 cases from Kansas South Carolina delewave and Washington, D.C. to Supreme Court the court decides 9-10 that separate but equal is wrong however many of these black students will never go to school with white students
  • Emmett till

    Emmett till
    Acwsed of whistling at whitewomen .3 days after Roy Bryant and others kidnapped eye detached ear cut off bar wire wrapped around his neck weighted down by 75 pounds cottonning fan throw water
  • Rosa park and the bus boycott

    Rosa park and the bus boycott
    Rosa is arrested for failing to move seats on the bus she is fined $10 mlk jr and church send the buses ran empty for 381 days Supreme Court ruled bus had to let black ride
  • MLK and 60 pastor

    MLK and 60 pastor
    A meeting of black church pastor to coordinate even for black people. MLK was elected the 1st president this group used a non-violent strategy this group also registered black to vote opposed view an war and provided better jobs for blocks
  • NAACP AND 9 BLACK STUDENTS

    NAACP AND 9 BLACK STUDENTS
    A student wanted to go the white school the government of Arkansas call out the national guard to stop them president Eisenhower calls in 1,200 military men to escort these students from home to class 1959 all schools fully investigated
  • 4 college students

    4 college students
    Go to wodworth’s buy them items then gos it at the lunch counter they are refused service and 18 to leave but they stayed day after they came back and did something the amount of students grew over the days to 6000
  • start in Washington, D.C. to go the Deep South to desegrate Bos station diners and hotels

    start in Washington, D.C. to go the Deep South to desegrate Bos station diners and hotels
    A diverse group of volunteers from 39states most were college students arrived in Anniston Alabama blocked by kkk time slashed fire bombed buses bumped and blating town
  • Lyndon b Johnson (LBS) Martin Luther king

    Lyndon b Johnson (LBS) Martin Luther king
    Enable the federal government to prevent rancid discrimination and segregation based on race color religion or national origin in provide businesses or public facilities
  • Malcom little

    Malcom little
    Civil rights leader who was part of the Nation of Islam he wanted black people to believe in themselves and start their own businesses he was shot 21 times Thomas hogan convicted of killing
  • 600 marches john Lewis

    600 marches john Lewis
    Black marches wanted to walk 54 miles to Montgomery to register to vote at the Edmond bridge troopers brutality beat them
  • Washington DC

    Washington DC
    Enabling the right to vote of african Americans only discrimination in voting new a federal matter not state
  • Lorraine motel Memphis Tennessee

    Lorraine motel Memphis Tennessee
    Stinking sanitation workers protest in Memphis went back to motel shot lower right sick of his face with Remington rifle James early ray sentenced to 99 years his death marks the end of civil rights