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First sit in
Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and Ezell Blair, Jr had all gone to a company store to get their school supplies and decided that they would try to order food knowing that they probably wouldn't get served. They sat their all day until they were forced to leave when the store closed and they had still not been served. This sit in didn't have much of an effect but it got other gruops to do sit in's until eventually owners put up sign that said no trespassing. -
Freedom Riders
In 1961 the, Freedom Riders, that mainly consisted of college students both black and white, but also consisted of the elderly too. They got on buses and blacks and whites would sit together and they would eat together as well when they went to lunch. They didn't run into any trouble until they reached Rockville, South Carolina where they met an angry mob and were beaten. -
Continue of Freedom Riders
On May 14th they ran into another mob that had slashed their tires but they drove off quick until the tires were completely deflated. An Angry mob had been following them in their vehicles and when the bus pulled off to the side the mob approached the bus and threw a fire bomb. The mob blocked the people from exiting the bus until one of the gas tanks exploded. When the gas tank exploded the mod let them out but still beat them until an undercover agent fired his gun into the air. -
Freedom Riders part 3
The cause of this event was people wanted the jim crow laws of the south to be completely gone. So Dianna Nash, John Lewis, Marion Barry, James Bevel, Hank Thomas, James Peck, Ed Blankenheim, B. Elton Cox, Bernard Lafayette and Jim Zwerg all had a plan of riding buses to the south for a non-vilolent protest. The event got the presidents attention and had the freedom riders escorted back to saftey and later they were put into jail. -
First black man to enroll at Mississippi
Black student James Meredith arrived to begin classes at the University of Mississippi. Thousands of whites rioted, resulting in two deaths and 200 injuries. U.S. troops were sent in to suppress the violence. Meredith graduated in 1963. SInce James Meredith more blacks can attend college but still have the fear of descrimintion. -
Letters from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King JR wrotes this letter in responce to criticism that 8 white religious leaders of the south wrote. The letter states the struggle that the blackas have to deal with everyday and how the white population sees no problem with this. he is trying to put them in his shoes to show what is really going on and trying to prove why it is so hard to have a different colored skin. I believe that this letter will help show how unjust the laws are and change will happen. -
George Wallace stands in door
George Wallace vowed to stand in the school door to keep the school segregated when two black kids were admitted, one being Vivian Malone Jones. She was going to attend Alabama to take accounting classes and George Wallace was standing in the door. He was asked to move but denied the request. President Kennedy called up the school to have George Wallace move and he did. Vivian ended up graduating from Alabama. Due to this blacks can now attend college and get a degree. -
March on Washington
March on Washington was a political rally to show the challenges that the black population deal with everyday. They wanted to be treated equally and be able to get jobs and freedom that the white people get to enjoy. The March brought more attention to the struggles that the blacks face and gave national attention to it. The event led up to MLK Jr's speech "I have a dream" -
I have a dream speech
Martin Luther King Jr gave a speech at the Washington Memorial on august 28th during the March on Washington. His I have a dream speech was focused on equal rights for the black popution and how one day the blacks and whites will be equal in everyway. -
Birmingham church bombing
The Birmingham church was a meeting place for civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr, SCLC, and CORE. The govenor of Alabama said that in order to stop civil right movements they needed a few high class funerals. On the 15th of September a man was seen placing a package under the church's steps that ended up killing Denise McNair, Addie Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley. The man that blow up the church was Robert Chambliss. -
Civil rights act
In 1964 congress passes a public law that allowed people of color and opposite sex the equal rights in hiring, firing, and promotion. -
Voting rights act
Blacks had the right to vote but the process and the consiquences well to harsh that many of them wouldn't register. So tons of demostrations were held and violence broke loose and something had to be done. Johnson got the congress to pass the voting rights bill and it had immediate impact. Over a quarter million blacks had registered to vote. -
Watts Race Riot
A police officers had pulled over a motorcyclist, Marquette, that he thought was under the influence of alcohol. While the officers was questioning him a crowd began to form and more officers had to arrive on the scene. Marquette's mother and brother showed up and the family was beaten by the police with butons. The three of them were arrested and taken to jail and the crowd had started to riot. The riots lasted six days and left over 30 people dead and 1000's injuried. -
MLK assasination
Martin Luther King Jr, was assassinated at a Memphis hotel in Tennesee by James Earl Ray. MLK was in Memphis to lead a demostration for poorly treated African American sanitation workers and was on his way there when he was shot through the jaw. The day before he said "We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promise land"
