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Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
A United States Supreme Court case in which segregation among schools was declared unconstitutional. Among that it also declared that the segregation of schools also violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th ammenedment. Meaning that the Equal Protection of the laws was not being portrayed at all through education, instead it was contradicting it. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till, 14 at the time of his death. He went to visit some of his family in Money, Missisipi. He then claimed that he had a white girlfriend back home, in denial his friends dared him to get a date by asking the cashier of a grocery store out. He accepted the challenge and three days later he was found dead. The ones who killed him were the husband and brother of the cashier, whom was predominantly white. They kidnapped him, beat him and then shot him in the head, leaving him dead. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It all started when Rosa Parks did not want to give up her seat to a white man four days before the boycott. She was tired from work and decided to just take a seat, but when the white man approached her telling her that she had to go to the back because she was an African American, she simply refused to do it. Creating controversy that led her to getting arrested and fine. After this event happened the boycotting of busses by blacks began. -
Greensboro (NC) sit-in
The Greensboro four (Young Men in the picture), created an act of silent protest. Just by them sitting in a place where service was denied to anyone but whites. Just as Rosa Parks they refused to give up their seats, to purposely create controversy in order to get their message across. The message of peaceful protesting. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders was established by a group of 13 African Americans and White civil rights activists. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) recruited people for the Freedom Riders to participate with them protesting to end segregation among the people. In act of rebellion they decided to go places where only white people were allowed, in a way of protesting against segregation as well. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Martin Luther King, Jr. It was an open letter which defended the strategy of nonviolent resistance to end racism. In other words MLK was trying to say that there was a way to end racism without using violence, simply because there was no way to accomplish peace if the violence kept reproducing. He simply tried to motivate people to end unjust laws in a peaceful manner. -
24th Ammendment Passes
Back then people had to pay a fee to vote in the national election. Meaning that they had to pay a tax in order for their voice to be heard (their vote being considered). On January 23, 1964 everything changed, the 24th Ammendment was passed and this ammendment ended any type of tax charged to any citizen of the United States towards their vote. Meaning that the voice of the people could now be heard without them having to pay to be heard. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. The main purpose of this act was to overcome the barriers preventing African Americans to vote. They too were citizens of the United States meaning that their voice also had to be heard equally as the other citizens regardless of their skin color. Therefore producing the 15th Ammendment. -
Black Panthers Founded
The Black Panthers Party was established by Huey Percy Newton, and Bobby Seale. They did not agree in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s way of nonviolent protest. They believed that it was inneffective and that no results could be produced that way. Instead they created a violent enviornment in which the protested against segregation, just creating much more violence. -
MLK Assasinated
Martin Luther King, Jr. the civil rights leader who made a big difference in the African American community was murdered in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,TN. The person who killed him was James Earl Ray whom had escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary. Due to the crime he committed he was sentenced for 99 years in jail.
