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Malcolm X
Malcolm Little was released from prison in 1952. From there he joined Nation of Islam (NOI). He change his name to Malcolm X to show that he rejects his slave name. then he joined MLK in the civil rights movement.He made a protest for a nonviolent movement. Later he got on stage and three people from the Nation of Islam shot Malcolm X 15 times and killed him. After he die his book got published and it had his popular ideas for the black youth. -
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Brown vs Board of Education.
It was a landmark of the Supreme Court in 1954 it was a case in which the justices ruled that racial segregation of kids of schools was unconstitutional. this was one of the cornerstones of the movement. It helped establish the precedent that made "separate-but-equal". Education and other services weren't equal. This was made so people of both color at the time to work together. So they could get along. They decided to that because of MLK. -
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the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott started on when a negro woman named Rosa Parks had to move from her sit on the bus when a white man was getting on the bus. The bus driver told her to move but she refused and then the bus driver had Rosa Parks arrested because she didn’t move. The bus was full and the white man wanted to sit in the back and told Rosa Parks to move she didn't and she said " This is my seat I sat here first and I'm not moving." the bus driver kicked her off the bus which got the negro. -
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Core and Freedom Rides
Founded in 1942 by the civil rights leader, The congress of Racial Equality sought to end and improve race relations through direct action. In its early years, CORE staged a sit–in at a Chicago coffee shop (a precursor to the successful sit–in movement of 1960) and organized a “Journey of Reconciliation,” in which a group of blacks and whites rode together on a bus through the upper South in 1947. -
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The Birmingham Bombing (Sixteenth Street Baptist Church)
The bombing of the Baptist Church in Birmingham,Alabama, was one of the deadliest acts of violence to take place during the civil right movement and evoked criticism and outrage people around the world. The negro people of Birmingham, Alabama were mad and upset that the church got bombed. The bomb exploded in the stairwell of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church killing four girls well injuring other in the building, in the Youth Day celebration. -
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Thanks to the campaign of nonviolent resistance championed by Martin Luther King Jr. beginning in the late 1950s, the civil rights movement had begun to gain serious momentum in the United States by 1960. That year, John F. Kennedy made passage of new civil rights legislation part of his presidential campaign platform; he won more than 70 percent of the African-American vote. Congress was debating Kennedy’s civil rights reform bill when he was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Texas. -
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Freedom summer and the Mississippi burning
In the summer of 1964, civil rights organizations including. (CORE) urged white students from the North to travel to Mississippi, where they helped register black voters and build schools for black children. The organizations believed the volute of white students in the so–called “Freedom Summer” would bring increased visibility to their efforts. The summer had barely begun, however, when three volunteers—Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. -
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New York School Boycott
is about hundred of thousands of parents, students, and civil rights advocates took part in the boycott of New York public school systems to show their support for the full integration of the public school system. The idea of the New York school boycott began in the early 1960s, when Milton Galamison, Presbyterian minister, and a former president for a major corp. for the NAACP Brooklyn branch, brought parents, teacher and students. -
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Selma to Montgomery March
MLK Jr.'s SCLC made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. Alabama’s governor, George Wallace, was a notorious opponent of desegregation, and the local county sheriff had led a steadfast opposition to black voter registration drives: Only 2% of Selma’s eligible black voters got to register. In February, an Alabama state trooper shot a young negro demonstrator in nearby Marion, and the SCLC announced a big protest march from Selma to Montgomery. -
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Less than a week after the Selma–to–Montgomery marchers were beaten and bloodied by Alabama state troopers in March 1965, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal legislation to ensure protection of the voting rights of African Americans. The result was the Voting Rights Act, which Congress passed in August 1965.