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Declared state-sponsored segregation of public schools unconstitutional. The 9-0 ruling decided that the "separate but equal" facilities are inherently unequal overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson. -
In 1955 14-year old Emmett Till was born in Chicago visiting Mississippi. He was murdered and beaten by 2 men for whistling at a white woman. Emmett's mother held an open casket funeral to show what had happened to her son. This shocked the nation and sparked the civil rights movement. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to white man because she was tired of giving in. Her arrest ignited the Montgomery bus Boycott which lasted 381 days. It was a nonviolent mass protest that ended up hurting the city's transit revenue and ended only when the U.S Supreme Court had ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. -
A group of 9 students named Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown Trickey,
Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Melba Pattillo Beals became the first to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They were protected by federal troops following a crisis involving the governor of Arkansas -
It was a nonviolent protest that had begun on February 1, 1960 with 4 black college freshman students sat in a white-only segregated lunch counter and they refused to leave after being denied service until they were provided service. This event happened in Greensboro NC -
A terrorist bombing on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bombing was committed by the supremacist terrorist group Ku Klux Klan -
People who would challenge segregation on interstate buses and in terminal facilities across the South -
It was a letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. talking about the civil rights movement that had defended the strategy of a nonviolent direct action against racial segregation -
250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. This is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Eliminated both federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes or any other fees it was a requirement for citizens to vote in federal elections. -
Labor and Civil rights law signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson that outlawed segregation in public accomodations, ended unequal applicator of voter registration requirements, and also banned employment discrimination based on race,color,religion,sex,or national origin. -
A march violently confronted by law enforcement at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which resulted in brutal attacks on peaceful demonstrators. -
Federal law signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Created to enforce the 15th amendment. Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that were used to disenfranchise Black and minority voters -
Supreme Court case that unanimously struck down state bans on interracial marriage. The Court ruled that laws prohibiting marriage based solely on race violated both the equal protection and Due process clauses of the 14th amendment. -
Martin Luther king Jr. was assassinated possibly cause of apparent hatred for the civil rights movement.
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