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browms boerd of eduction
in 1953, there were 21 states with segregated schools, Linda brown parents sued the Topeka board of education which denied her the rights to school attended a Topeka school
1954 supreme court ruled that separate schools could never be equal -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
December 1st 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama and she is arrested and jailed -
Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit In
Woolworths lost 1/3 of its business and desegregated all of it’s restaurants (nationally) on July 26, 1960. Black employees were the 1st to be served -
Birmingham, Alabama
civil rights activists (Southern Christian Leadership Conference - SCLC) organize nonviolent protests (sit ins, marches), which lead to mass arrests draw media attention and force integration – Spring 1963 -
MARCH ON WASHINGTON
-More than 200,000 people of all races gather on “The Mall” in Washington, D.C. to protest police brutality, unequal pay, job discrimination, continued segregation in education, lack of rights.
-Dr. King delivers “I Have a Dream” speech -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
September 15, 1963
-four girls killed, 22 others injured
-church was a meeting place for Civil Rights protests
-KKK members Robert Chambliss (convicted 1977), Thomas Blanton and Bobby Cherry (convicted 2000), Herman Cash (never convicted/deceased -
Malcolm X
member of the Nation of Islam
-favored separation from whites
-encouraged African Americans to defend themselves using whatever means necessary
-assassinated February 21, 1965 -
Dr. King’s Assassination
-Dr. King was killed by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee
even in death he is one of the most influential figures in civil rights and nonviolent protest
