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The KKK is a terrorist group that kept blacks form their human and legal rights. They killed many blacks for no reason and was just a true hate group.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
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NAACP was formed in response to the ongoing violence against African Americans around the country. The NAACP is still a major organization today.
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CORE was created for change in peaceful confrontation and to have organized sit ins
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Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in the major leagues. He played a white sports and was not accepted by his teammates, players, fans, coaches, and umpires. He play for the Brooklyn Dodgers and was #42
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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Ruby Bridges becomes the first to attend grade school.
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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A black church was bombed in Birmingham and killed 4 innocent black girls and 17 other were injured. These bombings were acts of hatred.
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LBJ was sworn in as president because of Kennedy being assassinated earlier that day. LBJ became president during the heart of the movement.
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The 24th amendment was added to ban poll tax.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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UTEP wins NCAA basketball over Kentucky with a team that's half black. This caused the colleges in the south to start recruiting blacks more.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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Henry Hayes and James Knowles lynched Michael Donald because of a court case (Donald was not apart of) that found an African male not guilty of murder of a police officer.
