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Plessy vs. Ferguson
in 1890 a law was made in Louisiana"equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races" on its railroads. In 1892 passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car , then he was brought before judge John H. Ferguson of the criminal court in New Orleans in 1896, Who upheld the state law. The law was then later challenged by the Supreme Court on the grounds that it conflicted with the 13th and 14th amendments.(http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson) -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Founded in 1890, CORE became one of the leading activist organizations in the earlier years of the civil rights movement. Was founded on the University of Chicago campus. in 1964, three civil rights activist, Andrew Goodman,James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the KKK while working as volunteers for CORE's freedom summer voter registration project in Mississippi. (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/congress-of-racial-equality) -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson Broke the color barrier when he became the first black man to play in MLB in the 20th century. He signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, and was named rookie of the year that year, National League MVP in 1949, and world series champion in 1955. (http://www.biography.com/people/jackie-robinson-9460813) -
Sweatt v. Painter
n 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, a black man, applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School. State law restricted access to the university to whites, and Sweatt's application was automatically rejected because of his race. When Sweatt asked the state courts to order his admission, the university attempted to provide separate but equal facilities for black law students. Link Text -
Brown v Board of Education
African American minors had been denied admittance to certain public schools, which established the “separate but equal” doctrine that stated.” In the case arising from Delaware, the Supreme Court of Delaware ruled that the African American students had to be admitted to the white public schools because of their higher quality facilities. Link text -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 1st,1955 Rosa parks was riding one of the Montgomery buses and refused to give up her front seat to the white man entering the bus. Mrs. Parks was the arrested and fined for the refusal of giving up her seat. 4 days after Rosa Parks was arrested all the black people in Montgomery would boycott riding the bus until they stopped segregating them.(http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott) -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
This group was created after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They are a group of Non-Violent Black Christian Civil Rights Activist.They work all around the United States to help empower the black people all around and get them equal rights (http://nationalsclc.org/about-us/history/) -
The Southern Manifesto
The Southern Manifesto was after Brown v The board of education. The south didn't like the fact that they were trying to integrate the schools. They said the previous law was not going against the Constitution, Nor the 14th amendment. Link text -
Little Rock- Central High School
On September 25th,1957 9 black students attended Little Rock, on this day they had their first full day of school after attempting to attend the school. When they first tried to attend the school they were spat on and called names and were almost attacked by white students, parents, and adults. Link text -
The Greensboro Sit-In
4 boys started a movement in Greensboro and sat in a diner at the front where they were refused service so they sat there anyways until the store closed police came but couldn't arrest them because they weren't causing any harm. So the group left and came back with more local college students the next day. (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in) -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee
This was a group that got teens involved in the whole civil rights movement. The group was created by Ella Baker and was a big role to the civil rights movement. They were more active in the Freedom rides than any other group this group of kids were very dedicated. (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sncc) -
Freedom Rides
A group of 13 black activist and a few white civil rights activist would around the south on the interstate bus terminals and go around trying to desegregate some of the bus terminals around the south, they would also try to go into or use white only bathrooms and diners, and vice versa. Freedom rides could end in so much violence for those people who did join the rides. (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides) -
Letters from Birmingham jail
The Letter from Birmingham Jail, also known as the Letter from Birmingham City Jail and The Negro Is Your Brother, is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/martin-luther-kings-letter-from-birmingham-jail/274668/ -
Medger Evers
Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1954, he became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. As such, he organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations, and economic boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. He also worked to investigate crimes perpetrated against blacks. On June 12, 1963, Evers was assassinated outside of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers-9542324 -
March On Washington
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. On this day Martin Luther King gave the I have a dream speech -
Bombing of Birmingham Church
At 10:22 a.m. on the morning of September 15, 1963, some 200 church members were in the building–many attending Sunday school classes before the start of the 11 am service–when the bomb detonated on the church’s east side, spraying mortar and bricks from the front of the church and caving in its interior walls 4 young girl -
24th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States_of_America_1992 -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
On June 15, 1964, the first three hundred arrived. The next day, two of the white students, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both from New York, and a local Afro-American, James Chaney, disappeared. In Mississippi, the murders shook the project profoundly. Surrounded by threats and violence, the workers resented the lack of federal protection and the slowness of the investigation. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-summer -
Civil Rights Act Passed
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Malcolm X Assassinated
Malcolm x was a violent civil rights activist he believed everything could be solved with the violence he was a part of the Islamic nation. one day when he was giving a speech he was shot to death in front of his crowd -
Selma to Montgomery
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for voting rights. http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_selma_to_montgomery_march/ -
Voting Rights Act Passed
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This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. https://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100 -
Black Panthers
Black Panther Party, original name Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality -
James Meridith
James H. Meredith, who in 1962 became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, is shot by a sniper shortly after beginning a lone civil rights march through the South. Known as the “March Against Fear,” Meredith had been walking from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, in an attempt to encourage voter registration by African Americans in the South. -
King Assassinated
On April 4th King was standing on the balcony of his hotel when his was shot to death
