brown vs board of education

brown vs board of educaion

May 17, 1954

http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.htmlThe story of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools, is one of hope and courage. When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history. The people who make up this story were ordinary people. They were teachers, secretaries, welders, ministers and students who simply wanted to be treated equally

the deatth of emmett louis till

Feb 14, 1955

http://www.emmetttillstory.com/, a 14-year-old African American teenager was brutally murdered by white men while visiting relatives in Mississippi. His name was Emmett Till. His murder and the subsequent trial of his accused killers became a lightning rod for moral outrage, both at the time and to this day. The case was not just about the murder of a teenage boy. It was also about a new generation of young people committing their lives to social change. As historian Robin Kelley states, The Emmett Till case was a spar

montgomery bus boycott

Dec 5, 1955

http://www.montgomeryboycott.comSparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and its president, Martin Luther King, Jr., became a prominent civil rights leader as international attention focused on Montgomery. The bus boycott demonstrated the potential for nonviolent mass protest to successfully

freedom riders

May 14, 1961

http://www.history.com/topics/freedom-rides "Travel in the segregated South for black people was humiliating," recalled Diane Nash in her interview for Freedom Riders. "The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use the public facilities that white people used." Transit was a core component of segregation in the South, as the 1947 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) pamphlet and Bayard Rustin song, "You Don't Have to R

birmingham police

May 3, 1963

http://www.informationbirmingham.com/police/During the first week of May 1963, Birmingham police and firemen attacked civil rights demonstrators, many of whom were children, in the streets bordering this park. The violence raised a nationwide public outcry, hastening integration in America's most segregated city. Birmingham, site of the first mass beatings of freedom riders, was selected by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) for a massive protest campaign. Kelly Ingram Park (historically known as West Park), was an asse

louis allen

Jan 31, 1964

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=27075405In September of 1961, Louis Allen, a Black farmer in Amite County Mississippi, witnesses the murder of voting-rights activist Herbert Lee by state legislator E.H. Hurst. Under threat of being killed himself, Allen is forced to falsely testify that Hurst killed Lee in self-defense. Privately, Allen tells friends and civil rights activists the truth, that Hurst killed Lee because Lee was registering Black voters. When whites learn that Allen is talking to the FBI, they boycott his timber busines

brunce klunder killer

Apr 7, 1964

http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Memorial-dedicated-to-martyr-Bruce-KlunderKLUNDER, BRUCE W. (12 July 1937-7 April 1964) was a martyr in the campaign to desegregate the Cleveland public schools. Born in Greeley, CO, son of Everett and Beatrice Klunder, he moved with his family to Oregon where he was educated. Klunder earned his bachelor's degree from Oregon State University (1958) and there met his future wife, Joanne Lehman. The couple wed 22 Dec. 1956, and had two children, Janice and Douglas. Klunder and his wife moved to New Haven, CT, where he enrolled in the Ya

johnson signs civil rights

Jul 11, 1964

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnson-signs-civil-rights-act In a nationally televised address on June 6, 1963, President John F. Kennedy urged the nation to take action toward guaranteeing equal treatment of every American regardless of race. Soon after, Kennedy proposed that Congress consider civil rights legislation that would address voting rights, public accommodations, school desegregation, nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs, and more. Despite Kennedy’s assassination in November of 1963, his proposal culminated in the Civil Rights Ac

state troopers

Mar 7, 1965

http://www.statetroopers.org Hundreds of state troopers from various states traveled to New Jersey to assist with ongoing security, patrol, and recovery operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, as part of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. Thank you to the troopers who traveled from these states to assist with the disaster in New Jersey: Louisiana State Police, Maine State Police, Maryland State Police, Massachusetts State Police, Michigan State Police, Mississippi Highway Patrol, Pennsylvania State Police,

thurgood marshall

Oct 2, 1967

http://www.biography.com/people/thurgood-marshall-9400241Born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2, 1908, Thurgood Marshall was the grandson of a slave. His father, William Marshall, instilled in him from youth an appreciation for the United States Constitution and the rule of law. After completing high school in 1925, Thurgood followed his brother, William Aubrey Marshall, at the historically black Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania. His classmates at Lincoln included a distinguished group of future Black leaders such as the poet and auth