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Plessy VS Ferguson
It was a landmark decision that upheld the segregation laws.
Seven out of one judge where for upholding segregation laws and the one judge was not there when the voting happen.
The thing that it is important about this event was that even a new age was about to begin there was no change to the minority race of the time. -
Brown VS Board of education
It was a land mark case because before this case black and white students where separated into different schools.But because of this supreme court case it made it unconstitutional to have both races separated.The reason this case is so important because it was the first major win for the civil right movement. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett was a 14 year old boy killed by white man. He was beaten so bad that his mother decided to have a open coffin so people, could see what they did to him. This caused an uproar because the people who did this got away with it -
Rosa Park and Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested for this. So Martin Luther King Jr organized the bus boycott. That lead to people joining his civil right movement -
Founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The SCLC was formed by MLK, Bayard Rush, Ralph Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth which led to a better organized civil right movements -
Little Rock Nine and Central High School
A group of all black students enrolled in an all white school, Which then led to the national guard blocking there way into the school. This led people to be angered by this because the government wouldn't let these students receive an education -
Greensboro sit in
Students sat in segregated lunch counters and refused to leave after being denied service. Soon it was happening all over the country. Many students where arrested but it forced establishments to change there segregation rules -
Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and freedom summer
An organized a voter registration drive aimed an increasing number of black voters. Most workers where white volunteers and the activist where harassed by the KKK and police. -
Freedom riders
Civil right activist who participated in segregated buses. They tested a 1960 supreme court ruling that outlaw segregated buses -
Civil right act
The act stopped discrimination in public places and employment. Which led to joined jobs and school of all races. Now Africans Americans took a giant steppe closer to freedom -
March on Washington
A protest at the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. It is also where MLK gave his famous i have a dream speech. The impact of this was that this show how far the black commune ti came because now there where white people marching with them -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm left the nation of Islam and formed his own group of African american unity. But he was shot and killed by a member of the nation of Islam. This shocked people because he was killed by his own people -
Voting right act
It was a law to allow men to vote no matter the state laws. But despite this discriminatory practices where put to keep African american males from voting -
Assassination of MLK
Mlk was shot at Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee he died later that day in the hospital. This caused riots all over the united stated. Because if this President Johnson passed the Fair housing act
