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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
A case in which Louisiana passed a law requiring seperate train carts, one for the black people and one for the white people. In 1892 Homer Adolph Plessy refused to move from the white people cart, resuting in a supreme court decision of "seperate but equal" -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
A case in which the supreme court ruled that segregation of public schools was violating the 14th amendment so it was considered not constitutional. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was supposedly seen flirting with a white chasler. Four days later following that event he was kidnapped by 2 white men and beat then shot to the head. -
Rosa Parks and Montgomery
Rosa sat down in a white seat and after being asked to move she refused. She was then aressted and charged $10. Her arrest began to change the v.s -
Greensboro Sit in
A chain of non violent protest that lead to the removal of the policy of racial segregation in sounthern U.S. Young Afro-Americans sat in at a white people lunch. -
End of Greensboro Sit in
This was the end of the sit in -
Freedom ride
8 black and 6 whites left Washinton,D.C on 2 public busses, trying to rest the Boynton Vs Virginia which declared segregation. They were attacked and killed. -
March on Washington
A march with 250,000 people lead by Philip Randolph to promote civil rihgts and equality walking down avenues and folllowed by the "i have a dream" speach. -
Civil Rights Act
Proposed by President JFK who was sympatheic to the Afro-Americas. He wanted blacks to have full equality and knew that racial descremination was an embarsment to America. Therefore the civil rights act was passed and authorized. -
Assasination of Malcolm X
After many attemps of assasination the members of the nation of islam finally succeded a week are fire bombing his home.He was shot while speaking at his rally organization in New York City. -
Voting Rights
Signed by Lyndon Johnson, a law was passed during the civil rights movement that eliminatied various devices like literacy test which they would use to restric blacks from voting. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
James Earl Ray planned his assassination a few months prier. MLK was shot in memphis as he stood on his balcony of his motel room
