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Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy was half black which back then they considered him colored. He was going on a train and sat on the white only section, but then was asked to move. Plessy was sent to jail and he felt like they were taking away his 13 and 14 amendments took this all the way the suprem court. He was over ruled because according to the contitution they just had to be "equal". -
Brown v. Board of Education
This was a another court case that delt wit the public schools for blck and white students to be uncontitutional. This was ruled as a violation from the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The ruling that the segregated public schools were for the most part equal, but not fair. Since they violated the Fourteenth Amendment she won. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a fourteen year old kid who came and visited Money, Mississippi. Tills siblings stopped at a gas station and were getting snacks. Till was alone with the white cashier lady for less than 2 min. and was accused of flirting. Then four days later they find him dead in a river. -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
It all started when Rosa Parks was going home on the bus and sat in the all whites section because she was "tired". Then was asked to move, but she refused so was then arrested. In reality we all know that this was a boycott. -
Little Rock Nine & Central High School
Little Rock Nine was group of African American students who were enrolled in the public high school. The Governer of Arkansas refused to let the students in. Then this was declared uncontitutional because it was breaking the 14th Amendement. -
Founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & Martin Luther King
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a group of black ministers and civil right leaders. Martin Luther King Jr. was choosen to lead a group to get rid of the disfranchisement of black southerners in a non- violent manner. -
Greensboro Sit-In
Four Afrian Americans walked into a dinner and sat on the counter then was asked to move, but they refused. They stayed there for hours on end until they were surved. They were harassed until they were arrested. This shows how quick they were to turn to anger. -
Freedom Ride/ Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were a group of people both white and blacks trying to stop the segregation on the interatater bus and rail staitions. They encounted many bumbs in the road like they burned their bus, several whites attacked. -
March on Washington
During this time we had many stuggles to gain full citizenship rights for African American to achieve the racial equality. Many civil rights oranization protest segreation. This event was located at the Lincoln Memorial and many civil rights leaders and religious leaders were there. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) & Freedom Summer
The SNCC was one of the most important groups that helped organize the Civil Rights Movement. The Freedom Summer was a volunteer campaign and this helped African-American's to set up the free schools and houses and other things. -
Civil Right Act
This is a law that ended segreation. This helped the African Americans not be dicriminated based on their race, color, religion, sex, or anything that deals with a person bein different. President John F. Kennedy wanted to give the Americans the right to be in a public place without and sereation. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X is an African American who was assassinated by the rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom. -
Voting Rights Act
Presiedent Lyndon Johnson tried to help the Affrican Americans from getting their right to vote under the 15th Amendent. In the south it was very hard to vote because they had to pay taxes, pass literacy test, and other thing that were ridiculous. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his motel. King’s assassination made many major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and extensive property damage in over 100 American cities.
