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Plessy V. Ferguson
During 1892 an African American known as Homer Plessy refused to give up his seat in a train car, thus erupting a debate in the supreme court, when the supreme court rejected and violated his constitutional rights, -
Brown V. Board of Education
In this court case the children fought for their right to go to a public school, but the supreme court ruled that the racial segregation of students was unconstitutional -
Murder of Emmett Till
In the case of Emmett Till, Emmett was visiting his family in Mississippi when he was accused of flirting with a white women, so the women husband and brother then beat him in the bank of the river and shot him in the head and threw his body in the river, -
Rosa Parks and The Montgomery Bus Boycott
In this case Rosa parks refused to give up her seat for a white American and in turn she was arrested, but this caused African Americans to riot against the bus company and not ride any buses till the laws was changed, this in turn made the bus company lose money. -
Founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & Martin Luther
This organisation was founded in order to protest against organizations that went against their group. they set up protest against the Montgomery bus system that did got Rosa parks arrested. -
Little Rock Nine & Central High School
This was an event that involved nine black students who were enrolled at an all white High School inn Little Rock, Arkansas, but on the first day of school the the governor called the Arkansas National Guard to block any black students from going into the school. -
Greensboro Sit-In
The Greensboro Sit-in began when a group of African American students staged a sit in a lunch counter and then refused to leave after they were refused service, this was a protest for their civil rights. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders was a group of white and African Americans that traveled through the south in a greyhound bus to fight for their civil rights, they did this by going to all white services and requesting services. -
March on Washington
During this march thousand of people marched to Washington where they gathered in front of the Lincoln memorial, this march was for African American jobs, freedom, and their inequalities that they had compared to everyone else, this was also the site where MLK had his iconic "I Have A Dream" speech -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) & Freedom Summer
This Project was brought together by the civil right organizations like CORE and SNCC in order to increase the lack voting registration in Mississippi where in turn they were attacked by the KKK, and the authorities -
Civil Rights Act
With the Civil Rights Act the United States became a better suited place for African Americans, because with the act brought an end to segregation in public places and banned discrimination to any person no matter who they were. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
On this sad day Malcolm X was addressing his organisation of Afro-Americans when out of no where he gets shot multiple times by a group of rival Black Muslims, that did not like his ideas. -
Voting Rights Act
With the passing of this act by LBJ, he hoped to over come barriers and local levels that prevented African Americans from their right to vote that was guaranteed under the 15th amendment, this was done because even though it had passed many states just ignored it an did not allow it. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr,
On this day a wave of shock was sent around the world, as people started to find out that MLK had been assassinated during a speech, as he had been known to be the king of the civil rights movement many people found it shocking that someone would kill a person that fought with peace.
