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Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v Ferguson Plessy v Ferguson was apart of the Fourteenth Admenment equal protection clause. Basically the white's and colored people were to be separated but equal. So colored people had their own are and so did the whites. For example, the white's had their own drinking fountain and so did the colored. -
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Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play in the MLB in 1947 for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
Medger Evers
Medger Evers Medger Evers became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. Evers set up vote/registration efforts, demonstrations, and economic boycotts.
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James Meredith
James Meredith James Meredith was born on June 25, 1933. When the time came, James applied to an all white Univesity in Mississippi. His application was admitted but he was denied because of his race. He thought back to the Brown v Board of Education event and followed that. He filled out a suit for discrimination. -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Congress of Racial Equality The purpose of Congress of Racial Equality was to improve race relations and discrimination policies. The founder of this was James Farmer. These people were pacifist and they had peaceful protests. -
Sweatt v Painter
Sweatt v Painter Heman Marion Sweatt was denied by the President of Texas State University, Theophilus Painter, for his ethnicity. Sweatt took Painter to courth in Texas, which denied him. So Sweatt took the case to the United States Surpreme Court stating that Texas is violating the Fourteenth Admenment. -
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Brown v Board of Education
Brown v Board of Education This event caused Whites and African American children to go to separate schools instead of the same school.
Cheif Justice Warren stated that the 'separated but equal' had no place. The Supreme Court didn't immedietly let this happen. -
Montgomery bus boycott
Montgomery bus boycott Decemeber of 1955, Rosa Parks got onto the bus after work and sat up front which was assigned to whites only. A couple of white men told her to move but she refused. Rosa got a $10 fine and was arrested. Martin Luther King Jr, saw what happened and took action. He stated that a bus seat should be first come first serve. -
"The Southern Manifesto"
The Southern Manifesto Howard Smith, chairman of the House Rules Comittee mentioned 'The Southern Manifesto' in his speech towards the house floor. He thought that separating schools for black and white people was unequal. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
SCLC Protesters from the bus boycott met in Atlanta, GA. This protest caused a bombing of a house and a church. About 60 people from 10 different states, came together and made SCLC. SCLC said that segregation must end, all african american's should reject segregation nonviolently and civil rights are important to democracy. -
Little Rock - Central High School
Little Rock - Central High School On Sep. 3 1957, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas's Governor tried to prevent 9 African American students to come into the school. Many attemps were made to try to negociate with the Governor. President Eisenhower came to Arkansas and removed the Governor from his position.Now called The Little Rock Nine went to school on Sep. 25 1957. -
Greensboro sit-in
Greensboro sit-in Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr, and David Richmond were apart of the Greensboro sit-in. The freshman's in college, protested about how only whites can sit up on the counters. So the men sat in the same spot all day until the shop closed. This happened for 4 days straight. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
SNCC This was founded by the four college freshmans that were apart of the Greensboro sit-in. Martin Luther King Jr was hoping that the SNCC would be a youth wing under the SCLC but the men wanted to be independent and making their own projects/strategies. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders James Farmer made a decision where whites and blacks were to travel on interstate buses in the 60's. They went through Washington D.C to New Orelands, Louisiana. They also went through Virginia and North Carolina w/o an incident. The virst violence was in Rock Hill, South Carolina when several young white men beat the black riders that suposibly used an whites only restroom. -
Letter from Birmingham jail
Letter from Birmingham jail This letter was written by Martin Luther King Jr during his imprisonment in the Birmingham jail. It was written because of the concern and cation of religious leaders in the south. -
March on Washington
March on Washington On August 28, 1963, over 200,000 protesters took part of the march in the nations capital, Washington D.C. This march was succesful with pressuring John F, Kennedy to make a federal civil rights bill in Congress. Also MLKJ, said his most famous speech "I Have A Dream" -
Bombing in Birmingham church
Bombing in Birmingham church At 11 am, a bomb exploded killing three 14 year olds (Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson) and a 11 year old ( Cynthia Wesley). Also injuring 14 others. -
24th Amenment
24th Amenment This Amenment gave the right to citizens to vote for a President or a Vice President, electors for President/Vice President, Secretory etc -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Mississippi Freedom Summer This event was a nonviolent protest by civil rights activists. This event was planned in late 1963 when white college students travled down to the south to help African Americans do things they were able to do. African Americans were not allowed to vote and many Mississippi residents held up a "Freedom Election" sign. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964 This act outlawed discrimination by race, color, sex, region, or national origin etc. Basically everyone will be treated equal no matter what/who they are. This act also allowed anyone to vote. -
Malcolm X Assassination
Malcolm X Assassination Malcolm X was standing on his pandemonium when he got assassinated. Not much words came out before he got shot to death. As he was standing in front of a crowd, a guy yelled out the N word and shot at him multiple times. Witnesses say that there were 30 gun shos and only 7 hit/killed Malclm X. -
Selma to Montgomery march
Selma to Montgomery march Jaime Lee Jackson got shot in the abdomen and died 8 days later. On March 7, about 600 nonviolent protestors intended to do a march from Selma to Montgomery. They arrived at Edmund Pettus Bridge on that same day and was blocked by State troopers, volunteered officers of local sheriff's department. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Vting Rights Act of 1965 President Lyndon B Johnson signed this act into the law on August 6, 1965. This act allowed anyone and everyone to vote as they wished. -
Black Panthers Party
Blank Panthers Party The Black Panthers Party was set up for a defense against the U.S Government. This program was the first in U.S History to struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation. -
Kings Assassination
King's Assassination Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on his balcony in Memphis,Tennessee. His death caused major chao's which had 40 deaths nation wide and had extensive property damage in over 100 American cities. James Earl Ray confessed his killing to Martin Luther King Jr. The hotel he was assassinated in is now a Museum
