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XXI (21st) Amendment
the 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment which mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol or allowed the drinking of alcohol. The 21st amendment is what stopped it . -
Brown v Board of Education
It was a united states supreme court case that state separation of public schools between black and white students was unconstitutional. -
Brown v Board of Education II
it was a supreme court case similar to brown v board education, But brown II it allowed integration in schools to happen in deliberate speed. -
White Citizens Council
The white Citizens Councils were an associated network of white supremacist , organizations in the United States, that was in the South. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa parks was arrested for refusing to give up a seat to a white passenger in Montgomery Alabama.This act of nonviolence sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott which was eleven month struggle to desegregate buses -
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the Montgomery bus boycott
the Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement -
Martin luther king Jr's house Bombing
Martin Luther King Jr.'s house was bombed by segregationists in the south who were retaliating for the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. which lead them to be angry at king causing his house to be bombed -
Bombing of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
The Ku klux Klan have bombed the home of civil rights leader Fred Shuttles worth who was home at the time of the bombing with his family and two members of Bethel Baptist church, where he served as a pastor . -
SCLC Founded
The southern christian Leadership Council. It was closely related to its first president Martin Luther king, who had a large role in the civil rights moment. -
Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops
Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by the Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight Eisenhower -
SNCC Formed
The student nonviolent coordinating committee was one of the major civil rights movement organization in the 1960s -
Greensboro sit ins
it was a series of nonviolent protest in Greensboro , North Carolina which lead to Woolworth department store chain removing the policy of racial segregation in southern united states. It was basically people sitting down in random food places ready to be fed -
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freedom riders
The Freedom riders were civil right activists who rode Buses into segregated southern united states in 1961 -
Bailey v Patterson
it was a supreme court case, that stated no state allowed racial segregation of interstate transportation -
MILK goes to Birmingham jail
Martin Luther king was sent to jail in Birmingham Alabama for protesting the treatment of Blacks in Birmingham. A court ordered king not to hold protests -
Kennedy sends in Federal Troops
President Kennedy sent military riot-control units to bases near Birmingham, said this Government will do whatever must be done to preserve order, to protect the lives of its citizens, and to uphold the law -
Equal Pay Act
it was a concept of labor rights that sated people who work in the same area get paid the same or given equal pay. it's commonly used in context of, sexual discrimination in relation to gender pay gap. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
When he arrived home, Evert's family was waiting for him and his children exclaimed to his wife, Myrtle, that he had arrived.[Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go", Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield rifle -
Bombing of a church in Birmingham
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham -
Assassination of John F Kennedy
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza.with his wife Jacqueline and the Texas governor john Connolly were injured -
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freedom's summer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched , to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Killing of Goodman,Chaney,Schwerner
Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists that were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement. The victims were Andrew Goodman and Michael "Mickey" Schweitzer from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi -
Civil rights act of 1964
It was a civil right and labor law that outlawed discrimination, depending on race , religion , color sex or natural origin -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was preparing to address the OAAU in Manhattan, then someone yells out of the packed audience Nigger Get your hand out of my pocket. His body guards were trying to calm everyone down and someone rushed from the crowd and shot Malcolm 21 one times in the chest solder arms and legs in total. -
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Selma to Montgomery marches
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It was aimed to overcome legal barriers at state and local levels which prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote guaranteed under the 15th amendment of us constitution -
Loving v Virginia
it was a big court case for civil rights movement that allowed and legalized interracial marriage . which meant black and white can marry legally -
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Detroit riots
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot was the bloodiest race riot in the "Long, hot summer of 1967. it was composed mainly between blacks and police. -
Assassination of MLK
martin Luther king, an American clergyman and civil rights leader was shot at Lorraine Motel in Memphis , Tennessee on April Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.he was shot by James earl ray -
Assassination of Robert “Bobby” Kennedy
2-year-old presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight PDT at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He had just won the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election. -
lynching of Emmett till
Emmett was a fourteen year old African american teen who was lynched . He was lynched because he wolf whistled or spoke to the store owner of the grocery store.
