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Plessy v. Ferguson
was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal" -
Formation of the NAACP
Advancement of colored people in the civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a buracial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group. -
Congress Of Racial Equality is Formed
Is an African-American civil rights organization in theUnited States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the C.R.M -
The Freedom Riders
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses -
Desegregation of the Military
presifent Harry Truman signed the ececutive order establishing the presidents committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed services, committing the government to integrating the segregated -
Brown V. Board of Education
Personal statement and legal action 2nd grader Linda Brown attended black school in Topeka Kansas father away and much poorer facility than white school: separate was not equal the case was argued by NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall 1954 case brown v. board of ed overturned standard of separate but equal with 9-0 ruling the beginning of the end for segregation -
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Civil Disobedience, Economic Pressure Began 100 days after the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white rider and was arrested Blacks in Montgomery responded with massive bus boycott that lasted 381 days MLK got his start in the movement by leading the boycott VICTORY: busses in MOntgomery were desgregated -
Brown V. Board of Education ll
Surpreme Court ruked in 1955 tgat all public schools must integrate with all deliberate soeed met with massive resistance in the south -
The Murder of Emmett Tiller
The murder of Emmit till documentary film produced by Firelight Media that aired on the PBS program American Experience. The film chronicles the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955 -
Crisis at Little Rock Central (personal statement, legal action)
The little rock nine: nine black students chosen to break the color barrier at little rock central high school in Arkansas in 1957
governor orval Faunus deployed Arkansas National Guard to prevent the students from entering: clamed States righ
president Eisenhower supported Federal Governments decistion to integrate and sent 101st airborne Dicision of US Army to assist the students in entering the school
proved federalism was stronger than states tight
Victory for intergation and Federalism -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., had a large role in the American civil rights movement. -
Malcolm X Begins Leading The Nation Of Islam
Malcolm X is widely regarded as the second most influential leader of the Nation of Islam after Elijah Muhammad. He was largely credited with the group's dramatic increase in membership between the early 1950s and early 1960s (from 500 to 25,000 by one estimate; from 1,200 to 50,000 or 75,000 by another). -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced /snɪk/ SNIK) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at an April 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University. -
Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have A Dream"
remains one of the most famous speeches in history. Weaving in references to the country’s Founding Fathers and the Bible, King used universal themes to depict the struggles of African Americans, before closing with an improvised riff on his dreams of equality. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
it ended segregation in public places and banned emplyment discrimination on the basis of race,color,religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the C.R.M -
The Freedom Summer
Or the Mississippi Summer Project was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in june 1964 to attempt to register as manny African Americans voters as possible in Mississippi -
Race Riots In the Eatts and Other Cities
Watts riots. The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. ... The riots were blamed principally on police racism. It was the city's worst unrest until the Rodney King riots of 1992. -
The Voting Rights of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
The Strategy of Sit-in
The Sit-In Movement. Students from across the country came together to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and organize sit-ins at counters throughout the South. This front page is from the North Carolina A&T University student newspaper. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
On Thursday, April 4, 1968, King was staying in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The motel was owned by businessman Walter Bailey and named after his wife -
Boston Busing
The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. -
Rodney King Trial
Rodney Glen King was an African-American taxi driver who became known internationally as the victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, after a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991.
