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Brown V. Board of education
1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all. -
Murder of Emmett till
,14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His assailants—the white woman’s husband and his brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. -
Rosa parks and bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. -
Southern Christian leadership conference
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established in 1957 to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization drew on the power and independence of black churches to support its activities.but to delve deeper into the struggle—and to do so with greater reliance on non-violence and with greater unity, coordination, sharing and Christian understanding. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. On September 4 1957 the first day of classes at Central High Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the Black student sentry into high school. -
Greensboro
4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at wodworth to be served. They were refused served. They continued to sit in and others joined, the protest spread to other towns forced change. They keep doing this until the wodworth change their mind. -
Students nonviolent coordinating committee and freedom summer
Youth group of students remined fiercely independent of MLK and SCLC. Generating their own projects and strategies. The two organizations worked side by side throughout the early years of the civil rights movement. This group was the second half of the freedom riders and were a part of the March to Selma. -
Freedom riders
2 week bus trip to the Deep South, to deliberately violate Jim Crow Laws. It was organized by CORE. The buses were burned and riders beaten by the KKK. Nov1, 1961 white and colored signs are removed from bus station, train stations and lunch counters. -
March on Washington
For jobs and freedom was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African American. 250,000 people were in attendance at the Lincoln Memorial. MLK was the Last to speak, and gave his” I have a dream speech”.70-80% of marchers were black, It helped to pass the civil rights act of 1964. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Can not be refused service
forbids employers and labor unions to discriminate against any person on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, physical disability or age in job related maters. Prohibits discrimination against race,color,religion,national origin, sex, or physical disability. -
March on Selma/ Bloody Sunday
600 students March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get the right to vote. They walked 54miles and were stopped at the bridge, seen on national television. LBL order the passage of 1965 vote rights law, 2nd March took place March 21-24 with 25,000 Marchers including MLK. -
Voting rights act of 1965
One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in USHistory. Blacks were registered to vote and being elected to public office. Black can now vote.