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Montgomery Bus Bocyott
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Pearshall Plan
The United States Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v Board of Education declared racial segregation in public schools. In August 1954 and in response to the Brown decision, Governor William B. Umstead created a “Governor’s Special Advisory Committee on Education,” with Thomas Pearsall, a prominent Rocky Mount farmer and businessman and former North Carolina Speaker of the House, as chairman. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students attempt to enter Central High but are turned away by the National Guard. The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision declared segregation in public schools as unconstitutional. -
Greensboro Sit In
Four African-American students of North Carolina University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Woolworth’s store. By February 1960 blacks and white were eating together at the same table. -
Wilmington Riots
On February 6, 1971, Mike's Grocery, a white-owned business, was firebombed. Nine black men and one white women was convicted for the crime. The riots resulted in two deaths.
