-
Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka
linda brown was denied permission to attend all the schools near her home because she was black. The closest school she could attend was 21 blocks away, So her parents decided to
filed a lawsuit to force the schools to admit her to the nearby, but segregated, school for white students. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy when he was visiting his family in Money, Mississippi and was kidnapped by two white men and they beat him, and shot him in the head for flirting with a white cashier. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. -
Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott
A black woman was on the bus on her way home from work when the bus got full and a white man told her to find a new seat. Rosa said no and She was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation. -
birmingham alabama protest - fire house" - televised
In the mid 1950’s, segregation was widespread and legally enforced throughout the American south. Birmingham, Alabama was a hotspot of black activism in opposition to segregationist policies. Between December 26, 1956 and November 1958, Birmingham blacks, led by Fred Shuttlesworth and other black ministers, initiated a campaign against the legal segregation of Birmingham buses -
The Formation Of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was a group formed to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South.The organization also had black churches support their activities.. -
Little Rock Arkansas - Central High School Integration
A group of white kids stood in front of school on the first day of school and Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering. -
Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's Sit-in
4 male black men decided to have a nonviolent protest by sitting in a white-only lunch counter. After being kicked out they told all their friends at their college they currently were attending and the next day more people sat there. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders were a bunch of people, both black and white people, and they were bound for the Deep South. Then CORE leaders finally realized that attacking them while they were on there way would send a wrong signal to the country. So once they arrived they were savagely attacked by a mob of more than 1000 whites -
James Meredith, University of Mississippi
A black man named James Meredith wanted to legally become the first black person to attend the University of Mississippi. Meredith was the first black student to attend 'Ole Miss' and was registered at the school after a violent confrontation between students and Deputies. -
24th amendment to the constitution
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. -
Martin luther king jr arrested, "letter from birmingham jail"
The clergymen agreed that social injustices existed but argued that the battle against racial segregation should be fought solely in the courts, not in the streets -
march on washington
was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. It took place in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony during the march -
civil right act 1964
that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.[2] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public -
malcolm x shot
was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. -
voting rights march "bloody sunday"
Forty-eight years ago Thursday, five hundred or so activists gathered to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks in the state. They didn’t make it. The march was attacked by state and local police, who were cheered on by crowds of white onlookers in an assault so brutal that it has come to be known as Bloody Sunday. -
voting rights
is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. -
watts riots
The six-day riot resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. It was the most severe riot in the city's history until the Los Angeles riots of 1992 -
formation of the black panthers
The Black Panthers were formed in California in 1966 and they played a short but important part in the civil rights movement. The Black Panthers believed that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luther King had failed and any promised changes to their lifestyle via the 'traditional' civil rights movement, would take too long to be implemented or simply not introduced -
Martin Luther King Assassination
Martin Luther King was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to lead a peaceful march in support of striking sanitation workers when he was shot in the head and neck and died. -
Civil Rights Act 1968
This act provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin. -
Democratic National Convention- "the whole world is watching"
When Americans turned on their television sets to watch the Democratic National Convention, they instead saw images of chaos in Chicago. Anti-war protesters and police clashed numerous times during the convention. -
stokely carmichael - black power - seattle
was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he graduated from Howard University and rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party.
