Civil Rights

  • Plessy Vs Ferguson

    Plessy Vs Ferguson

    A man that had 1/8 black was kicked off because he had a little black hertig
  • NAACP

    NAACP

    The National Association for the Advancement of color people is the civle rights founded in 1909
  • the congresses of racial equality if formed

    the congresses of racial equality if formed

    African American civil rights organization
  • Desegregation of military

    Desegregation of military

    Blacks and white troops fought together and not in black or white groups
  • Brown V. Board of Education

    Brown V. Board of Education

    A 2nd grader Linda Brown attended a black school he dad thought her school was not equal to the white school. public schools desegregated.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycotts

    Montgomery Bus Boycotts

    Started with Rosa Parks not giving up her seat to a white person and she was arrested blacks responded in a Bus boycott and it lasted 381 days. Victory for the busses in Montgomery were desegregated.
  • Brown V. Board of Education 2

    Brown V. Board of Education 2

    Supreme court ruled that public schools must integrate.
  • Crisis At Little Rock Central

    Crisis At Little Rock Central

    Blacks broke the color barrier at Little Rock central High School
  • Malcolm X begins leading the nation of Islam

    Malcolm X begins leading the nation of Islam

    Second most effective leader
  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins

    Peacefully sat at lunch counters all day and soon met with violence and arrest
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    Rode busses throughout the south to protest both black and whites.
  • the freedom riders

    the freedom riders

    rode buses and was attcaed by white people
  • James Meredith

    James Meredith

    He attempted to enroll in an all-white university Victory for integration and federalism
  • MLK i have a dream

    MLK i have a dream

    Marti Luther King said his "I have a dream" speech at the march on Washington
  • Birmingham

    Birmingham

    Most segregated city in south protest target city 18 bombings accur between 1957 and 1963
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    200,000 protesters attempt to pressure congress to pass JFK's Proposed Civil Rights
  • The Civil Rights act of 1964

    The Civil Rights act of 1964

    outlawed discrimination of color, race, religion, sex or national origin.
  • freedom summer

    freedom summer

    More blacks and whites to be able to vote
  • march from Selma

    march from Selma

    MLK organizes voter registation march from Selma to Montgomery
  • MLK assassination

    MLK assassination

    Martin Luther King was assassinated at Lorrain motel in Memphis, Tennesse.
  • Rodney King Trial

    Rodney King Trial

    He was beaten by three officers