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Brown Vs. BoE Topeka
A case in which on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits the states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person within their jurisdictions -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus and stood up for her self. She was kicked off the bus, and later was incarserated -
Southern Manifesto is Denounced
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MLK formed the SCLC
With the goal of redeeming ‘‘the soul of America’’ through nonviolent resistance, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established in 1957 -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1960 was a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote -
Freedom Riders
The congress of race equality form tours to ride accross the country doing peaceful protests. They were treated very violent -
Governors Wallace Rejection
Governor Wallace refused to let to African Americans into the Universty of Alabama. Federal troops were sent in to renforce the students -
Civil Rights Act is Updated
In 1964 Congress passed a new Civil Rights Act. The provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing -
Voting Rights Act
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting -
Black Panther
The practices of the late Malcolm X were deeply rooted in the theoretical foundations of the Black Panther Party. Malcolm had represented both a militant revolutionary, with the dignity and self-respect to stand up and fight to win equality for all oppressed minorities -
MLK's Assassination
James Earl Ray was born in Alton, Illinois, on March 10, 1928. A confirmed racist and small-time criminal, Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March. After he turned himself in he was also shot. -
Furgeson
As most of us know, Mike Brown was shot, and killed, by Officer Wilson. The courts did not punish him, and this provoked alot of riots and Kaios. The officer has recently resigned, but the riots havent stopped
