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Rosa Parks Bus Incident.
Rosa Parks had chosen to sit in the white section of the bus, and when a white person had gotten on the bus and requested her to move out of the seat to her section Rosa refused. Thus leading to her arrest, however this lead to the boycott of the bus system to end the seperation of sections on the bus. -
Formation of the SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Little Rock Nine
This was the first time that black students were enrolled into a all white school. Thus bringing many threats and mistreatments, towards the Afircan Americans. -
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Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia -
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March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
JFK Assasination
Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. By the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign. -
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Voting Rights Act
The passing of a federal law that was aimed to get past local levels and give african americans the freedom and right to vote for state and local. Was then commended under teh 15th amendment of the united states of america. Signed by president Lyndon Johnson. -
The Black Panther Party
It was a Black political organization; originally known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The BPP originated in Oakland, California, by founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
The party’s original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. The Panthers eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group that called for the arming of all African Americans -
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Plessy VS Ferguson
United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. Rejecting Plessy’s argument that his constitutional rights were violated, the Court ruled that a state law that “implies merely a legal distinction” between whites and blacks
