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Founding of CORE
an organization founded in 1942 that was dedicated to civil rights reform through nonviolent action -
Integration of Military
President Harry S Truman signed the executive order esablishing the Presidents Committee on the Equality of treatment and oppourtuinity in the armed services. Comitting the government to integrating the segrigated military. -
Brown v Board of Education
The NAACP's legal campaign truimphed in 1954 when the Warren Court issued the Brown v Board of Education decision. This ruling declared segrigation in public schools to be unconstitutional and underminded the legal basis for segrigation in other areas of American life. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott starts
The one-day boycott was so succesful that the organizers who called themselves the MOntgomery Improvement Association decided to extend it. To lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a 1955 boycott that resulted in the intergation of montgomery. Alabama's bus system, the MIA chose a 26-year minister. Martin Luther KIng Jr. -
Little rock nine
In 1957, a federal judge ordered public schools in little rock arkansas to begin desegrigation. The Little Rock Nine school superintended, Virgil Blossom hoped to postpone the chang as long as possible. He set up a plan to integrate just one school, Central HIgh School. Two thousand white studented attended Central. IN september 1957. NIne black students were schduled to join them. They would later be known as the Little Rock NIne. -
Sit-ins-1st exsaple
The campaign to integrate public facilities in the south continued through the 1960's Student protesters challeneged segrigation in various ways. The sat down in "Whites-only" pubic places and refused to move, thereby causing the buisness to lose customers. This tactic is known as a sit-in. -
Freedom Rides
A civil rights protest in which the black and the whites rode interstate busses together in 1961 to test wether southern states were complying with the supreme court rulng against segrigation on the interstate transportation system. -
James Meredith
In 1961, james meredith, an african american vetren of the korean war applied for admission as a transfer student for the university of Missippi. The university had traditionally been all white. Meredith knew he would be taking a stand to integrate it. When his application was rejected, Meredeth turned into the NAACP to help him take his case through courts. -
March on Washington
Massive demonstratin in the nations capital that demanded passage o the federal civil rights act and more economic oppourtuinites. -
Birmingham
Civil rights efforts to desegregate Birmingham, Alabama, where shocking images of police brutality -
Freedom Summer
3 workers disappear, their cases arn't solved and the police man serves a short sentance -
civil rights act
Legslation that 1) banned segrigation in buisnesses and places open to the public. 2) prohibits racial and gender descrimination in employement. The result of thousands of individuals risking their safety as well as high profile events of the last 18 months. -
Voiting Rights
Having the right to vote,
African americans pleaded for this for a while because they were never given easy and nice voting rules. -
Selma March (1st One)
The bridge walk were protesters walked for civil rights and voting rights -
Kings Assassionation
this is kind of a turning point and is the ending of the hatered for african americans and the Courts and LAws are finally given out to support the African Americans for teir rights and civil rights and strengthen all their rights.
