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Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of Education ended legal segregation in public schools. 117 African Amercian students went on a strike to end segregated public schools.The strike leader was Barbara Johns. The result of the strike was filed in 1951 on behalf of the students. The NAACP and Thurgood Mashall was also apart of this case. In the case of Brown vs. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas the U.S Supreme Court order schools to stop racial segregation in public schools on May 17, 1954. -
Little Rock Nine
This event was on September 4,1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The methods of this event was enforcing Brown vs. Board Education. The leaders of this event was nine African Americans.
The result was that Central High School was intergrated. The African American students decided to walk to school together, but there was one student who they couldn't call because she didn't own a phone to let her know that they were going to walk to school together, she got harassed by the mob the next day. -
Greensboro Sit-in
On February 1,1960, four Afican American students sat at a white- only lunch counter. This event happened in Greensboro,North Carolina. The four boys names were Franklin Mcain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr. and David Richmond. The result of their actions was profound; by the end of February, over thirty cities and towns in seven states were successfully engaged in the sit-in campaigns. The purpose of the sitting was to protest with violance. -
Busing in Charlotte
Wednesday, April 28, 2004: In 1969, a federal judge ordered the Charlotte, Mecklenburg school district to use busing to speed integration a process that did not end until 2001. -
Freedom Riders
The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4,1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C.,on two public buses bound for the Deep South.
