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The Civil Rights Movement
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the formation of the southern christian leadership conference
African-American civil rights organization. president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and the SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.Their goal was to form an organization to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the South. -
Brown vs Board of Education
In 1954 the United States Supreme Court passed a law which would declare the end of separation of public schools for black and white students as it was now believe unconstitutional. This momement happen after Mr. Brown took his daughter to the public school nearest to his house, however this was a all white school. Mr.Brown daughter had to walk a half mile to get on a bus to go to a all black school. Mr. Brown was tried of this and he pushed to pass a new law. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a African- American boy, age was 14 at the time of the event. He was murder due to the fact he was caught flirting with a white girl. -
Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. -
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The Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, was a event in the U.S. civil rights movement, was both political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.On January 10 , 1957, following the Montgomery Bus Boycott victory and consultations -
Central High School intgration
On 4 September 1957, the first day of school at Central High, a white mob gathered in front of the school, prevent the black students from entering. On September 23,1957 of police escorts, the students successfully entered the school through a side entrance. -
Woolworth's sit-in
four students from the Technical State University sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store .The men, later known as the Greensboro Four, ordered coffee. Following store policy, the lunch counter staff refused to serve the African American men at the "whites only" counter and the store's manager asked them to leave. -
freedom riders
Ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961, -
James Meredith
he was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. -
Birmingham campaign
Movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the unequal treatment that black Americans endured in Birmingham, Alabama., the spring 1963 campaign of nonviolent direct actions culminated in widely publicized confrontations between black youth and white civic authorities, and eventually led the municipal government to change the city's discrimination laws. -
Martin Luther King Arerested
Dr. King was arrested during a sit-in at a restaurant, waiting to be served when the restaurant did not serve African Americans. On February 21, 1956 Dr. King was indicted with other figures in the Montgomery bus boycott on the charge of being party to a conspiracy to hinder and prevent the operation of business without just or legal cause. -
March on Washington
one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history[3] 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 -
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. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
a lpiece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women -
Malcolm X Shot
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
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 Right Act
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 Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 17, 1965. 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. -
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stokely carmichael black power
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. -
formation of the black panthers
African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s. -
Martin Luther King Assassination
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05PM that evening. -
Civil rights Act 1968
the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, was a piece of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin. The Act was signed into law during the King assassination riots by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had previously signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law. -
democratic national convention 1968
U.S. Democratic Party was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to August 29, 1968. Because President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection, the purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the office.[
