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Executive Order 9981
It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. It was issued by president Harry S. Truman. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
A case where the court decided that there would not be different schools for blacks and whites anymore. And that racial segregated schools was unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
Parks got arrested for refusing to give her seat up on a bus for a white man in the colored part of the bus. She was imeditily arrested. -
Little Rock Nine
Students were prohibited from entering racially segregated schools. But then a decision was made that racially segregate schools was unconstitutional and it was declared that all school would be desegregate. But this also posed a threat for the black students that went to school, they had to be guarded by the nation guard because white people would be violent and mean towards them on the way to school. -
SNCC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1960-1966
A group of black students from Texas A&M refused to leave a Woolworth’s lunch counter when they had been denied service. This sparked a wave in them and they created this group to coordinate sit-ins, support their leaders and publicize their activities. This went on for six years. -
Woolworth Sit-in
4 student sat down at the lunch counter in the Woolworth store, later they tried to perchase things but wernt given service. The workers refused to serve African Americans and we asked to leave. The students didnt leave and the next day more African American students joined the sit-in as a protest. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activits who rode buses into segregated southern United States. They faced many issues on there ride like the bus being blow up and violence to the African Amercians on board. -
James Meredith
Meredith was the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
This was a letter that MLK wrote while in Birmingham Jail, it was to white priests who wanted him to stop what he had been doing with the non-violent protest and civil rights for African Americans. -
March on Washington
This was a political rally for civil and human rights for African Americans. It took place in Washington D.C in front of the Lincoln Memorial where Martain Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a Dream" speech to end racism. -
6th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Bombs were placed in the church underneath steps and 4 little girls were attending Sunday school that day and they died due the bombs that were placed. It was done by the Klu Kux Klan aka. KKK. -
24th Amendment
Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. Before this amendment, the poll tax prevented African Americans from voting but now that will no longer be an issue. -
Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
These men where civil rights workers that were murderd by the Ku Klux Klan aka. the KKK. These 3 men had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Malcolm X assassinated
Malcolm X was assassinated mainly for being a black muslim minister. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson Death
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a civil rights protester who was shot a killed by an Alabama State Trooper. Jackson was unarmed his death is what inspired the Selma to Montgomery marches. -
Bloody Sunday 1965
About 600 African Americans marched from Selma, Alabama to Motgomery. In doing this they demonstrated African American voting rights. When they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge the demonstraters were violently assalted by armed state troopers and deputies. They beat them and threw tear gas into the crowd. -
Selma to Montogomery Marches
Over 600 African American marched from Selma to Monyogomery in memory or Jimmie Lee Jackson and for their civil rights. This march lead to what is known as "Bloody Sunday". -
Voting/Civil Rights Act of 1965
Prohibits discrimination on voting. This allowed African Americans to vote legally in politcal voting polls. -
Los Angeles Race Riots
This was a racial riot that lasted 6 days and resulted in 34 deaths over a 1,000 injuries and over 3,000 arrests, It was because in LA it prevened African and Mexican Americans from renting or buying in certian areas. -
Executive Order 11246
This execution Order was signed by LBJ and it prevents the government from not hiring someone because of race, color or gender. -
Black Panthers Founded
An African American revolitionary organization. -
Loving vs. Virgina
Where a white man married a black women which caused them to go to prison for this. -
Martan Luther King Jr. Assasination
On this day MLK was shot while standing on his motel balconey by James Ray. MLK was a man who change society and he was a major target by people who opposed to his beliefs and changes he made to America. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Provides for equal housing oppertunities regardless of race or religion or color. -
“Bull” Connor Uses Fire Hoses on Black Demonstrators
Was a part of the Project C, and he strickly enforced segrefgation and to deny blacks their civil right. On May 2nd he took a fire hose a sprayed black demonstrator (children). -
Civil Rights Act of 1991
Limited the rights of employees who has sued their employers for discrimination. Faces the problem of discrimination within work places. -
Emmett Till
He was brutally murdered for whistling at a white women.
