Quarter Project

By psanchez028

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Brown vs Board of Education
    • it was a Supreme Court case to end segregation
    • 9-0 decision- or unanimous, for equal protection under the 14th amendment

  • Emmet Till

    Emmet Till
    • 14 year old boy from Chicago visiting Mississippi
    • accused of whistling at a white woman
    • Ray Bryant and JW Milam will kidnap, beat, shoot, kill, throw into a lake Emmet Till
    • Maime Till has an open casket for his funeral

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama
    - Rosa refused to move, she was arrested.
    - December 5, a boycott of buses will last 38 days
    - Nonviolent protest to start more civil rights movements.

  • SCLC

    SCLC
    • Civil rights organization, joined by MLK
    • Founded in Atlanta, Georgia
    • Believed churches/religion should be involved in nonviolent political activism.

  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9
    • Group of 9 African American students enrolled into Little Rock Central High School (white school). They were abused, both physically and verbally.
    • Minnejean Brown was expelled for retaliating against his attackers in 1958.

  • Greensboro Sit in

    Greensboro Sit in
    -North Carolina

    - 4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworths to be served. They are refused service. Continued to “sit in” and others joined, the protest spread to other towns. Forced change.

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Freedom Summer

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Freedom Summer
    Youth group of the students remained fiercely independent of King 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

    Freedom Riders
    • Civil rights activists rode interstate buses into the south. They did this to protest segregated bus terminals.
    • Greyhound bus (first to arrive in Alabama) was met with an angry mob of 200 white people. They broke windows, popped tires, threw a bomb into the bus, members were beaten.
    • Eventually President Kennedy would file an administration, the Interstate Commerce Commission, which prohibited segregation in interstate transit terminals. Included both black and whites.

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    For jobs and freedom was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. 250,000 people were in attendance at the Lincoln Memorial. MLK was the last one 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

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    • Can not be refused service
    • Forbids employers and labor unions to discriminate against any person on grants of race, color, religion, sex, physical discrimination or age in job related matters.
    • prohibits discrimination against race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or physical disability.

  • March on Selma

    March on Selma
    • 600 students march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get there right to vote. They walked 54 miles and were stopped at the bride. Seen on national television. LBJ order the passage of 1965 voting rights law. 2nd March took place March 21-24 days with thousands marching.

  • Voting Rights Act 1965

    Voting Rights Act 1965
    One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in U.S. History. Blacks were registering to vote and being elected to public office.