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Atherine Lucy
Atherine Lucy was the first African American girl to go to the University of Alabama. A lot of people didn't want her there, and she was judged and discriminated against every day. They expelled after four days. -
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
The supreme court ruled that racial segregation in public schools be unconstitutional. Jim crow laws started to apply for schools like "separate but equal" for black and white kids of different ages. -
Youth March for Integrated Schools
The first youth march took place in Washington D.C.
About 10,000 African American kids went to fight for their right to go to school. It had a really big impact on the civil rights movement. -
Greensboro Sit-In
A really big clear act of discrimination happened when Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and Ezell Blair Jr, four college students, sat at the white people's table and where physically discriminated and they weren't severed because they were black. -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges, a girl in elementary school, was the first girl to ever attend a white school. People were throwing stuff at her and no one wanted to go to school with her because she wasn't white. She attended school without anyone for a while until people started accepting her. -
James Meredith
He was an African American teenager that attended the University of the white university in Mississippi. There were a lot of problems and President Kennedy sent troops to attack it. Later on, he started a march to have voting rights and white person shot him. -
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Voter education project.
The first organization for the votes for African American kids to vote was stared (VEP) which allow people to vote for the right of people to go to school. -
Governor Gorge Wallace
The democratic governor of Alabama made a promise which said "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and then he blocked the entrace of two African Americans to go to school. And then they had a march against the right of segregation.
