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This was a life changing decision of the supreme court in which the court ruled the the U.S. state laws established racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. -
A 14-year old boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered while visiting his family in Money, Mississippi. He was brutally murdered because he had flirted with a white women 4 days earlier. -
Rosa Parks was a lady that wanted to sit in the front of the bus, but in those times only white people were allowed to sit in the front, and the colored were supposed to sit in the back of the bus. She was arrested multiple times because she would sit in the front of the bus. This inspired other colored people to do the same, and this became a protest to show that segregation was wrong. -
This was an event when 9 colored students wanted to enter a all whites school, and they were not allowing them to enter even after the decision of the supreme court. So then later on President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine inside the school. -
Young african american students did a sit-in at a segregated restaurant named Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro. They refused to leave the restaurant until they were served. -
Freedom riders were a group of white and african american people that rode busses to protest segregated bus terminals. Sometimes they would protest in segregated restaurants and sometimes the protesting would get violent. -
These were letters that addressed the nonviolent protest to his fellow religious leaders while being in jail. -
This was a march was to demand the civil and economic rights for african american people. -
This was a bombing that happened at the 16th Street Baptist Church. This was an attack by the Ku Klux Klan. -
This amendment prohibited that state governments to impose poll taxes before a citizen that could participate in a federal election. -
This act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or religion. -
This was a march that was held by 600 people. They were marching on east out of Selma on U.S. route 80. When they got to Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away; there were state and local lawmen that attacked them with bully clubs and tear gas. -
This outlawed the discriminatory voting practices that were adopted in many southern after the civil war. -
This was a case about a interracial couple. They had married in Washington D.C. but when they came back to their home in Virginia; they were arrested because in Virginia they banned marriage between blacks and whites. They sent their case to court and they won because the court ruled that state bans on interracial marriage was unconstitutional.