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executive order 9981
President Harry Truman passed executive order 9981 in order to desegregate the military. As a result for Truman's support for civil rights, many southern democrats withdrew their votes for him in the 1948 election. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a african american 14 year old boy who was murder in mississippi when he got cought flirting with Carolyn Bryant. Carolyn's husban Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Emmett's uncles house and took the boy to a barn where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire.This helped fire up the movement against segregation -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
segregation of public transportation came under attack as a result of one womans failure to take a back seat wich caused people to boycott busses due to segregation wich inspired Martin luther king jr to become a leader and a nonviolent movement to achive integration. -
little rock crisis
Little Rock nine was a group of African Americam students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis where the students were not aloud to enter the racially segregated school by the governor of Arkansas. later with the help of president eighsen hower thesse students where accepted to the university. -
SNCC founded
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee first began from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. EventuallySNCC grew and gained many more participants,.SNCC had projects in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, and Maryland. -
Freedom Riders
This day was the day when 13 African-Americans joined with wihite civil rights activists to form the famous group known as the "Freedom Riders." This collision was a very important group for they tried to send a message by going on bus routes through the American South to protest segregation in interstates bus terminals. They did not only encountered violents from white protestor but they also gain fame along the way for what they stood for. (to eliminate segregation) -
Medgar Evers murdered
Medgar Evers was shot to death by Bryan De La Beckwith; Evers was a African American civil rights leader, volunteered for the US army and was part of the normandy invasion.Also Helped fire up the movement for equality. -
March on Washington
On this day an estimated amount of a quarter of million people marched from the Washignton Monument to the Lincoln Memorial to send their message of meaningful civil rights and to eliminate segregation around the world. This event was important because it did not only consist of black people but white people as well it was covered by the media. -
24th amendment
This ammendment was a poll tax or a fee on voting for state officials to prevent the lower class to have a part in state afairs, -
MLK assasinated
He was staying in Lorraine Motel were he was standing in the balcony where he was shot in the cheek breaking his jaw and some vertebrae then the bullet traveled to his sholder. A witness saw James Earl Ray running from the location. MLK was rushed to the hospital but later died.
