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Plessy verses Ferguson
Plessy, a man who was only 1/8 black (but still under Lousianan law considered "colored") sat on a train in a whites only car. He was removed and jailed, but he took his case to court saying it voilated the 13th and 14th admendment. The jury ruled that this was not the case as of the "seperate but equal act". -
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Civil rights movement
The acts of trying to achive equal rights for people of all races happen thoughout this time of reforms and non-voilent protests. -
Cicero Race Riot of 1951
On the dates of July 11-12 there was a riot of over 4,000 whites attacking an apartment building that housed olny a single family of blacks in Illnois. This resulted in the governor of Illnois, Adlai Stevenson to send the Illnois national gaurd to help the family. Yet this resulted in the beating of the roiters and a huge fight between the white roiters and the national gaurd. By July 14th the voilence had ended in $20,000 of damage. -
Malcolm X gaines popularity
Malcolm X a black mulslum becomes the minister to Temple number 7 in New York. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This was a determination by the supreme court that racial segragation in a school setting is unconstitutional. All public schools must yeild to this principle. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till 14, was exiting a candy shop and was said to be fliting with the owners wife. That night he was thrown intoa river and drowned. The all white jury deemed the perpetrators not guilty, even though there was evidence that they killed him. -
Rosa Parks/ Montgomery "Bus Boycott"
Rosa Parks a well know civil rights activist refused to give her seat up to a white person and then was incacerated. Many other blacks were even shot for doing this and nothing happed, but Parks was a well know Civil Rights activist. This sparked a boycott from using buses. Which spawned blacks walking and organizing car pools. Some blacks would just sit on the buses and never get off. Buses then went unsegragated on December 20th 1956. -
Integration of Little Rock Cenral High school
Nine black children escorted by US army troops to go to there school in hopes of racial integration. The children were prevented to go to school and harassed by a white crowd. Only one child made it out by the mercy of a white woman getting the child on a bus. -
Lunch Counter "Sit ins"
Blacks would stay and "sit in" at places that would not serve them. Many of these "sit ins" ended with a police call and then some voilence. Yet all the people wanted was food and some customer service. -
Freedom RIders
Buses full of students tooks buses through the deep south. Thirteen students drove through the deep south to protest segration of bus terminals. The tires on the buses were slashed and the buses with the protesters were burned. -
Summary of 1962
-University of MS is dictated by the president to allow a black collage student James Meridith to attened.
-When they do not let James in the governer of MS uses the national to allow James in.
-Roits errupt over James enrollment.
-Yet James sucefully sttends the collage. -
Birmingham Demonstrations
In jackson and Albany Georgia as well as Soma Alabamba people gathered to boycott and protest the Freedom riders bravey. Martin L. King was arrested for being the leader of this event -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr. after being arrested for having a demstation without a linscence. During the eleven day he spent in jail he wrote his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. -
Bombing of the 16th street baptist church
The Bombing of the 16th street baptist church was an act of terrorism by the Ku klux Klan as they blew up a church while four innocent girls were inside attending sunday school. -
Registration Drive
100s of students came to help blacks register to vote. So many people came and risked everything to vote. -
Murder of civil rights Workers in Philadelphia,MS
Three people were held by the deputy in Jail in Philidelphia MS. At 10PM the deputy set them free to drive back to New York. Cars followed them home and all three went missing. The area was searched heavily by the CIA. They found many black bodies and found there must have been many people tourtured by the KKK in that place. -
Banning of discrimination
Congress bans dicrimination of blacks in public places such as restraunts and work places. -
Jimmy Lee Jackson Killed
Civil rights protestor Jimmy Lee Jackson was killed by an Alabamba state trooper while being unarmed. -
Bloody Sunday
The first march that was sparked after the protest of Jimmy Lee Jacksons death. 600 marches were attacked by state troopers and with tear gas and clubs. -
Voting rights march
After Jimmy Lees death the sparking of the Selma to Montgomery march began to register to vote. Thousands of people led by Martin Luther were led to the capital in Albamba. -
Interacial dating
The suprme court now has designated laws aggainst interacial dating uncountitutional and are now outlawed. -
True Good becomes Marshall
First black man on the Supreme Court, this makes giant leaps and bounds in the civil rights movement. -
Death of MLK
Martin Luther King JR. while out on his hotel balcony is shot and killed. -
Fred Hampton is Killed
In Illionis Fred Hampton, the leader of the black panthers is killed.
