troy's timeline

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education: the 1954 Supreme Court ruling declaring that segregation
    Class action lawsuit: a lawsuit that is filled by people
    She had to walk seven miles to get to school
    the school that was closest to them was for whites
  • Jackie Robinson

    color line: a law that separated the whites from the blacks
    Negro leagues: a black league for baseball players
    Started around the end of World War 2
    was the first black to play baseball
  • executive order 9981

    Executive order 9981: an executive order ending segration in the military
    it gave everybody an opportunity
    congress of racial equality: an organization that dedicated through the civil rights
    founded in 1942
  • Core founded

    founded in 1942 for the civil rights movement
    Congress of racial equality: reform through nonvilent action
    Great migration: where one goes to one spot
    Thougrood Marshall was the head of the group
  • Briginham campiange

    Martian Luther King called it the most segrated city
    SCLC: The southern Christian leadership conference
    did after the Montgomery bus boycott ended
    lead by Fred L. Shuttleswhorth
  • Civils right act of 1964

    March on Washington: a protest so that blacks can get jobs
    Philip Randolph proposed the march in 1941
    Civil rights act of 1964: a act that banned the discrimination on the basics of race
    passed and signed into law on July 2, 1964
  • Lunch counter sit in

    blacks sat down in white lunch counters
    SNCC: nonvilionet action and sit ins
    Civil disobedience: the nonviolent refusal to obey a law
    did not want see any violence
  • Freedom rides

    Freedom rides: wear whites and blacks rode interstate buses together
    on May 4, 1961 7 blacks and 6 whites rode the bus together
    some wanted them gone others didn't
    James Farmer proclaimed victory for the freedom rides
  • Central High School

    There were 9 integrating students
    They were all called out
    NAACP: National association for the advancement of colored people
    What it is to ensure education to blacks
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington: a protest that more than 250,000 people participated in
    the goal was to protest for the blacks
    The king inspired the world with his dream
    It is I have a dream speech
  • bus boycott start

    bus boycott: Where a black doesn't get up for a white
    Rosa Parks refused to get up
    She did it in the state of Alabama
    E.D Nixon asked if parks could do a case around her arrest
  • Voting rights acts of 1965

    Freedom summer: a organization for blacks to vote
    Voting rights act of 1965: congress outlawing literacy tests
    More than 900 people signed up for the freedom summer
    federal intervention wold not turn down eligible voters
  • Advocates for black Nationalism

    black nationalism: a doctrine promoted by the national of Islam
    Malcolm X also rejected nonviolence
    Black Muslims worked to be independent
    leaders of nonviolent can go to the white company
  • bakke vs califorina

    ruling for blacks to attend
    did not end the debate
    it was deeply divided
    thought that it could be a citation
  • Black Panther Party Founded

    Black Power: group of activists that were not focused on nonviolent
    SNCC: Student Nonviolent coordinating committee
    blacks and the Nation of Islam were infnlucened by the leaders
    Malcom X, Heuy Newton and Bobby Steale
    were ok with
  • 1968 civil rights

    a law that included a ban on discrimination
    included a fair-housing component
    assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
    founded it difficult to buy houses
  • Swann V. Charolette- board of education

    It was a ruling for school integration
    it was appealed
    they were forced to intergrate
    it raised question where it was located
  • Swan v Charlotte

    desegration: ending the separation of people by race
    School and the blacks who are being bussed to the school
    bussing is a way for schools to desgrate
  • watts riot

    1965 race riot
    lasted six long days
    erupted in 30 cities
    cause was police brutality