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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
Civil rights, civil rights reform through nonviolent action, Founded in Chicago in 1942 by a group of students. -
Jackie Robinson Hired to Dodgers
Color line, first african american MLB player, was an army lieutenant. -
Executive Order 9981
Ended Segregation in military, issued by Pesident Truman, ended racial, color, religion, or national origin discrimination within the military. -
Brown v Board of Edu.
Third Good Marshal ( NWACP lead attorney.) -
Montgomery Bus Boycott (start)
Boycott & Rosa Parks, E. D. Nixon, a local activist, asked Parks if the NAACP could build a case around her arrest, and Parks agreed., On December 5, a sign at a Montgomery bus stop read, “People, don't ride the bus today. Don't ride it, for freedom.” On that day, 90 percent of African Americans who usually rode the bus honored the boycott. -
Integration of Central High School
Little Rock Nine, nine students who were the first blacks in an all white school, the students had to have police officers escort them around. -
First Lunch Counter Sit-in
Jim Crow Laws & Sit-In, four African American students from North Carolina's Agricultural and Technical College sat down at a lunch counter in the Woolworth's drugstore, The four students stayed at the counter until the store closed. -
Freedom Riders
Civil Disobedience & SNCC, seven blacks and six whites boarded two buses in Washington, D.C., and headed south, The mob followed the bus as it left town, threw a firebomb through the window, and then beat the passengers as they fled the bus. Passengers on the second bus were also beaten when they arrived in Alabama. -
Birmingham Campaign: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
SCLC, Virtually no public facility in Birmingham allowed blacks and whites to mix, Birmingham had a history of racist violence. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Plessy v. Ferguson, a landmark act that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin, the most important civil rights law since Reconstruction. -
Watts Riot
Kerner Commission &
ghettos, a 1965 race riot in Watts, a black ghetto in Los Angeles, caused by frustrations about poverty, prejudice, and police mistreatment, lasted six days. -
Black Panther Party Founded
black power, a group founded in 1966 that demanded economic and political rights and was prepared to take violent action, The black panther was a vicious animal, who, if he was attacked, would not back up. It was a political symbol that we were here to stay and we were going to do whatever needed to be done to survive. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
discrimination, a law that included a ban on discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, or sex, This law included a fair-housing component that banned discrimination in housing sales and rentals. It also gave the federal government the authority to file lawsuits against those who violated the law. -
March on Washington
NAACP, protest in which more than 250,000 people demonstrated in the nation's capital for "jobs and freedom" and the passage of civil rights legislation, the largest political gathering ever held in the United States. -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
desegregation, the 1971 Supreme Court ruling that busing was an acceptable way to achieve school integration, a federal judge ordered the district to use busing to integrate its schools. -
Regents of the Univeristy of California v. Bakke
Affirmative action, Supreme Court ruling that narrowly upheld affirmative action, declaring that race may be one factor, but not the sole criterion, in school admissions, Therefore, the Court ordered the university to admit Bakke to medical school. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
disenfranchise, only 320 of more than 15,000 eligible black voters were registered to vote at the time., By February, more than 3,000 had been arrested, charged with crimes such as “unlawful assembly. -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam, Malcom X, Muhammad taught that blacks were Earth's first people but had been tricked out of their power and long oppressed by evil whites., After Malcolm Little left prison in 1952, he joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name to Malcolm X. He said Little was the name of a white slave-owner.
