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Brown US Board of Education -WDC Kansas
Separate but equal was wrong -
Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks, from Montgomery, Alabama
- December 5, a boycott of buses will last 38 days.
- Nonviolent protest to start more civil rights movements.
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Emmet Till
-14 year old boy visiting Chicago
- Accused of whistling at a white woman.
- Kidnnapped, Beat, Shot, Killed, and thrown into lake emmet Till by Ray Bryant and JW Milam
- 14 year old Maime Till has an open casket at funeral services -
SCLC
- Civil rights organization, joined by MLK
- This organization was founded by Atlanta, Georgia
- Strongly believed that churches/religion should be involved in nonviolent political activism.
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Little Rock 9
- 9 African Americans students into Little Rock Central High School ( white school).
- they were abused physically and verbally
- Minnejane Brown was expelled for retaliating against his attackers.
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Greensboro , North Carolina
4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at Wordsworth to be served. They were refused service . Continued to “sit in” and others joined . The protest served to other towns. -
Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee and Fredom 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.
- 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.
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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
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
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 of 1965
Blacks were registering to vote and being elected to public office.