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Escape of Harriet Tubman
[Harriet link](www.datesandevents.org/people.../18-harriet-tubman-timeline.htm) Harriet was given a piece of paper by a white abolitionist neighbor with two names, and told how to find the first house on her path to freedom. At the first house she was put into a wagon, covered with a sack, and driven to her next destination. and kind enough to give her directions to safe houses and names of people who would help her cross the Mason-Dixon line. She then hitched a ride with a woman and -
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Plessy v. Fergouson
[plessy link](www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1895/1895_210)The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required seperate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892 Homer Adolph Plessy, took a seat in the whites only and was arrested. -
Jackie Robinson
[Jackie Robinson link ](www.jackierobinson.com/)He is remebered as the man who broke the color barreier in major league baseball. This was precedent because no black people have ever played major league baseball before him. he was a phenomenal player. -
Emmett Till Murder
[Emett Till link](www.facinghistory.org)Emmett Till was murderd for flirting with a white woman four days before his death. He was fourteen. His assailants the white woman's husband and her brother. They made Emmett carry a sevnety five pound cotton gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River. They orderd him to take off his clothes. The two men beat Emmett nearly to death. Then they gouged out his eyes. Then shot him in the back of the head. Tied his body to the fan and threw him into the river. -
Rosa Parks bus boycott
[Rosa Parks link](www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/rosaparks/story.asp)Rosa Parks 42 year old woman boarded the Montgumery City bus.She sat near the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. Soon all of the seats in the bus were filled. When a white man entered the bus, the driver told that all four blacks sitting just behind the white section give up their seats so that the man could sit there. Mrs. Parks, who was an active member of the local NAACP, quietly refused to give up her seat. -
Little Rock 9
[Little rock link](www.littlerock9.com/)Three years after the U.S supreme court ruled unanimously in Brown V. Board of education. Nine black students dared to challenge racial segregation in public schools by enrolling in White Central High. September 25 little rock nine under protection from federal troops enter central high school through the front. Agressive white mobs verbally chastise the students and physically harmed black reporters in the crowd. -
Greensboro,Nc sit in
[Greensboro sit in llink](americanhistory.si.edu/.../freedom-strug...)four African-American students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina. While sit-ins had been held elsewhere in the United States, the Greensboro sit-in catalyzed a wave of nonviolent protest against private-sector segregation in the United States. -
I have a dream speech
[I have a dream speech link](www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm)The speech was deleiverd to 250,000 people. He began the speech about Abraham Lincoln. Then he metioned about freeing the slaves. He said he demanded his and his supporters freedom. His ending words were "We are free at last." -
Loving v. Virginia
[Loving link](www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/.../...)In 1958 residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a black woman and Richard Loving, were married in District of Columbia. They were then charged with violtaing the states antimiscegmotion statue, which banned inter-ratial marriages, the lovings were found guilty and sent to jail for a year. Unless they left the state for 25 years. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
[martin link](history1900s.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkassass.htm)At 6:01 p.m civil rights leader Dr.Martin Luther King was hit by a snipers bullet. King was standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorrain motel in Tennessee. The bullet hit his right cheek traveled through his neck and stopped at the shoulder blade. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. He was shot by James Earl Ray.
