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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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The NAACP was a Civil Rights Organization for colored people. The NAACP played a huge role in the fight for civil rights.
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Description Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith's controversial Civil War epic.
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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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This was controversial because the little rock nine had a mob when they went to school, so Ruby had to be escorted by government officials so she didn't get hurt.
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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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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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Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith.
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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 bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Killing 4 young girls in the process.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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Malcolm X was murdered by the group of Islam after he ran away.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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After a minor road stop for reckless driving, the police on the scene started attacking the victim and ended up not guilty. This caused the Watts Riots. 3,438 people were arrested after these riots because of the mass amounts of looting, arson, assault, shootouts, and murder.
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This was a big part of civil rights because after Texas Western wins the NCAA title, Colleges in Texas started accepting a lot of African American students.
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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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During their medal ceremony in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City on October 16, 1968, African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the US national anthem.
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The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama in 1981 was one of the last lynchings in the United States. Several Ku Klux Klan members beat and killed Michael Donald, a young African-American man, and hanged his body from a tree.
