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Brown vs Board of Education Topeka
Court case ruled 9-0 was made to establish integrated schools for white and black children. -
Emmett Till Murder
After flirting with a married white woman in Mississippi, he was murdered. After having an eye gouged out and beaten, he was shot in the back of the head. -
Rosa Parks
On this day, Rosa Parks boarded a bus going home from her work and refused to sit on the back of the bus for being black, starting a revolution. -
SCLC formation
Dr. King invited about 60 black ministers and leaders to Ebenezer Church in Atlanta to organize this group, that brought sooner the -
Little Rock Integration
Nine black students faced 1000 white protestors, and had a 1200 man battle group escort the kids in as violence arose. -
Greensboro Sit Ins
A series of non-violent protests which led to the department store Woolworth to reverse their policy of racial segregation. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Writers were a group of civil rights activits who rode interstate buses into segregated southern United States to protest against the non-enforcement decicions of the Supreme Court. -
James Meredith
Writer, American civil rights movement figure and a polictial adviser, who was the first black student allowed in the segregated University of MIssissippi. -
24th Amendment
Stated that both Congress and the states had no control in who voted on federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. Proposed on August 27th, but not ratified until January 23rd of the next year. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
After Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest, he wrote a letter after being arrested for his part in a non-aggressive protest against racial segregation. -
Birmingham, Alabama portests
Organized by the Southern Christan Leadership Confrence, they were trying to to call attention to the unequal treatment that blacks went through. They were non-violent, but the police didn't appreciate thier protests and arrested them. But when that didn't work, the black people were sprayed with the fire hose. -
March on Washington
One of the largest political rallies for human rights in U.S. history. Civil and econimic rights for black citizens. -
Malcolm X Assassination
While preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, a man in the 400 person crowd yelled "Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!" As security responded, a man ran up and popped him in the chest with a double barrel sawed off shotgun. -
Bloody sunday
A near 600 strong protest group marched across Edmund Pettus Bridge where they met a wall of police and were attacked with nightsticks and tear gas after they tried to come to terms with the state troopers. -
Voting rights act
This is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States. It outlawed discriminating voting practices. Which was responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of Blacks in the U.S. -
Watts riots
A bunch of riots over a span of six days. Resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and approximatly $40 million in property damage. -
Black Panthers
Black revolutionary socialist organization. Achieved national and international notoriety for its involvement in the Black Power movement. -
Civil Rights Act
Provided national housing for people regaurdless of race, creed, or national origin. Signed during the King riots after his death. Also commonely known as the Fair Housing Act. -
Democratic National Convention
A series of president nominating conventions held every four years. -
MLK Assassination
Shot on his balcony in Memphis, Tenneessee at 6:01 p.m. by James Earl Ray.
