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Plessy v Ferguson
May the 18th, 1896. It was a court case that was upheld in the U.S.This case was to use segregation but it had to be equal. The main goal was to keep races separate but equal. Homer Plessy was not happy sitting in a car for blacks so he faught for equality. -
Formation Of The NAACP
February the 12th, 1909. The NAACP (National Association Advanced Coloured People) is an organisation that was founded to explore and fight for justice for African Americans.W.E.B Dubois was a major involvement it was all caused by coloured people not having the same rights as white. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
December the 5th 1955. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a movement where coloured people rode buses to get rid of the segregation with seating in buses. It started when Rosa parks was arested for sitting in the wrong seat on the bus. This left everyone else to change this and make it so that this wouldnt happen again and it led to wanting desegregation. It was caused by coloured people not wanting these laws to exist and the fact that seating was such a stupid segregation law. -
Little Rock Nine
September the 4th 1957. A group of 9 black students enrolled at an all white school after segregation had been eliminated. On their first day the principal ordered white towns people to block them out and this broke the new laws of desegregation. Later that month the president of the USA sent federal participants protect the 9 african american students. This drew attention as it was the first time the declaration of the de segregation was enforced and it impacted the whole world. -
Sit Ins
February the 1st, 1960. This strategy was to erase segregation policies in restaurants by offending those rules to sit in restaurants they were not allowed to. Many black people got arrested for going to white restaurants and doing the sit in strategy but after a while this affect showed results. Before it started to show results violence was brought to the people that did these sit ins but Martin Luther King started the Nonviolent coordinating community and this spread quickly. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
In April 1960 after the Sit Ins Strategy started the SNCC was created in North Carolina. This wasn’t only decided and wanted via the students that got abused by sitting in, it was hugely impacted by Martin Luther King. He started it and made sure that it was applied to schools and public so that The Little Rock Nine didn't happen again either. He enforced that there was no violence when people tried to create change and made the civil rights movement successful. -
The Freedom Riders
May the 21st, 2003. The Freedom Riders were activists that said that the segregated buses were not constitutional and wanted more rights. They rode the buses interstate in America. It was caused by many things but the biggest was Homer Plessys, Plessy v Ferguson. -
"I have a dream"
August the 28th, 1963. In Washington DC Martin Luther King made a speech about his dreams of erasing segregation and making the world a free place for everyone. It had a huge effect and he is now very well known for what he did and the “I have a dream” speech. -
African Americans Vote
On March The 7th, 1965 African Americans had no right to vote until Lyndon B. Johnson made a change. He believed that if they are African Americans they should still have the right to vote. In Alabama Many Americans joined the Selma to Montgomery march to fight for African Americans rights to vote politically and locally. People that marched got hurt and abused but it started a movement in letting everybody vote. -
Martin Luther King's Assasination -
April the 4th, 1968. Martin Luther King's assassination took place in Tennessee. James Earl Ray was a white man who killed him. This shocked the world and happened because Martin Luther King hoped for so much and people didnt ik his ideas of racial equality. His legacy continued and he is a well known man in history.
