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NAACP
National Association for Colored People was to help black people fight for there rights. Eventually it led up to the supreme court which they denied. -
Emmett Till
Flirted with a white girl at age 14. Was kidnapped and beat. Then shot and thrown in a river. -
Emmit Till
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Rosa Park
Sat in in white person spot on the bus. Refused to move from the spot because she was tired. Leading up to her being arrested. -
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Greensboro Lunch Sit In's
Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South. -
Martin Luther King Jr. I have a dream speech
The speech is to ecplain that he thinks that all people should have the same rights. Whether different skin color or not all people deserve equal rights. Also people should not be juddged by skin or color but by the content of their character. -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. -
Bombing of Birmingham Church
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Freedom summer
The next day, two of the white students, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both from New York, and a local Afro-American, James Chaney, disappeared. Although their badly beaten bodies were not discovered for six weeks, certainty that they had been murdered swept the country and helped precipitate the passage of a long-pending civil rights bill in Congress. In Mississippi, the murders shook the project profoundly. -
The Civil Rights Act
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Malcolm X
Fiery civil rights leader broke with the group shortly before his assassination, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where he had been preparing to deliver a speech.On the evening of February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where Malcolm X was about to deliver a speech, three gunmen rushed the stage and shot him 15 times at point blank range. Malcolm X was pronounced dead on arrival at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital shortly thereafter. He was 39 years old. -
Selma to Montgomery march
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The Black Panthers
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Martin Luther King Jr. Assasination
Just after 6 p.m. the following day King was standing on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he and associates were staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, at the age of 39.
