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The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African-American boy, who was visiting relatives in Mississippi. While at a grocery store to buy candy, his friends dared him to talk to the owner's wife. The owner and his half brother later picked him up, 2 aclock in the morning, an brutally murdered him. They were later trialed but were aquitted of their crimes. They also admitted to killing him on a magazine interview, protected by double jeapordy, -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to surrender her seat to a white person. This started the Montgomery bus boycott, which led by Martin Luther King Jr., gathered the Black community to boycott or refuse to use Montgomery Buses. They were eventually successful and segregation was banned from Montgomery and Alabama buses. -
Little Rock Nine
In a historic court case called Brown vs. Board of Education, on May 17, 1954, it was declared that all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional, and it called for a desegregation to all schools. In Fall 1957, a group of 9 American-Americans were planned to go a previously all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. They faced violence and verbal assualt day after day, until President Johnson issued paratroopers to defend the students. They eventually succeeded and graduat -
The Greensboro and Nashville Sit-ins
Groups of organized African-American college students that would non-violently sit in white-only stores. They would ask for service, and when denied, they would sit in the store until it closed. This would take part if a sucessful activist movement, and would lead to the Civil Rights act of 1964 -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Rider Video Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into segregated Soutern United States. They would challenge the enforcements of the Civil rights laws that the south had ignored. They would go into white stores and buses to test these laws. The test results were unfortunate, and the police did nothing to protect the African-Americans from white mobs. -
The Albany Movement
Albany Movement The movement mobilized thousands of protestors which brought nationwide attention, but failed to accomplish its goals. Bus stations, lunch counters, and libraries reserved for White Americans were now occupied by African-Americans to take part of a protest, Hundreds of protestors also marched City Hall to to take part of the movement. -
Burmingham
Burmingham Campaign The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized by the (SCLC) to bring attention to the unequal treatment that black Americans endured in Birmingham, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. was also arrested during the campaign while marching at city hall. Also, Bull Connor from the Burmingham Police Department, used fire hoses and police dog on protesters. -
3 Mississippi civil rights workers murdered
Civil Rights Workers Disappear Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were threatened, intimidated, beaten, shot, and buried by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. This sparked national outrage and spurred the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women. This was what the all the African-Americans were fighting for, and finally succeeded, equal rights for all. -
Bloody Sunday at Selma
Bloody Sunday This started as a march from Selma to Montgomery, led by Martin Luther King Jr. with the SCLC, The march led to what is known as "Bloody Sunday", when 600 marchers, protesteing the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas.
