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Brown V. Board of Education
Relating to the segregation of schools on race. In each cases African American students had to be denied to attend to certain public schools based on laws allowing public education to be segregated by race. -
Emmett Till
On August 28, 1955, while visiting family down in money Mississippi, 14 y/o Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for flirting with a white women four days earlier before his life was taken away. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This event took place on December 5, 1956 till the 20 of December. It was regarded as the first largest scale U.S demonstration against segregation. Four days before the Boycott began Rosa Parks (a African American women) was arrested and fined for refusing to give her seat to a white man. -
Little Rock Nine and Integration
The Little Rock Nine where a group of 9 African American students who enrolled at formerly all-white central High School in Arkansas on September 1957. There reason to be sent to that school was to test the Brown V. Board of Education . -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-Ins
A civil Right Protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in segregation Woolworth's lunch counter Greensboro North Carolina. They refused to leave after being denied service -
Freedom Rides
A first conceived in 1947 when CORE and the fellowship of Reconciliation organized a interictal bus ride across state lines to test a Supreme Court decision that declared segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional -
MLK'S Letter from Birmingham Jail
The "Letter From Birmingham Jail" is a open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was for Jobs and Freedom. It was also simply known as the March of Washington or The Great March on Washington, it was held on August 18, 1963.te Mar -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church as church members were getting prepared for Sunday service. The racially moved attack killed four young girls and this shocked the nation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
In 1964 the Congress passed Public Kay 88-3452 (78Stat. 241). -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment of the Untied States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the States from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment or a poll tax or other types of tax. -
"Bloody Sunday"/ Selma to Montgomery March
The Selma to Montgomery Marches were three protest marches that were held in 1965 along the 54-mile Highway from Selma Alabama to the State capital of Montgomery -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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. -
Loving V. Virginia
The case of Loving v. Virginia was argued on April 10, 1967 and was decided on June 12, 1967. The case was about two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter a Black women, and Richard Loving a white male. They were married in the distract of Columbia then returned to Virginia and were charged with violating anti miscegenation statute, which was banned inter-racial marriages.