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Civil Rights Era
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Brown VS. Board of Education of Topeka
The U.S District Court unanimously held the Brown v. Board of Education case due to Topeka, Kanas denying Linda Brown's admission to an all white school. Supreme Court labled segregation as an unconstitutional violation to the 14th amendment. -
Bus Boycott by Rosa Parks
NAACP officer, Rosa Parks, took a seat in the front row of the "colored" section on a Montgomery bus. While the bus filled up, there wasnt enough room for more whites. Bus driver ordered Parks and 3 other African-Americans passengers to empty that row, Rosa refused to move seats, causing her arrest to be the next roaring news around the U.S leading to the bus boycott. Having them not ride the bus or use any transportation that was segregated. -
Little Rock Crisis
Some labor unions in Arkansas had ended their Jim Crow practices, wanted to end segeration in their town. Governor Orval Faubus wanted segeration, turned down the "Little Rock NIne" with the National Guard 's help. Causing Eisenhower to act upon it and sent soldiers to escort the 9 African-American students to school. Fabus ended of closing down the school. -
John F. Kennedy Assissination
Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of the crime and arrested that evening. Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald two days later, before a trial could take place. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. -
Congress Passes Civil Rights Act
This was a law of 1964 that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national orgin, or religon in public places and most work places. -
Freedom Summer
In 1964, it was still not okay for African Americans to vote. CORE and SNCC workers in the South began registering as many African Americans as they could vote. Hoping their campaign would influence the Congress to pass a voting rights act. -
Black Panthers Attack!
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, Calfornia founded a party called the Black Panthers which was to fight police brutality in the ghetto. The party advovated seld-sufficiency for African-Americans communites, ull employment, and decent housing. Sometimes fights would break out in shootings between the police and the panthers just protecting the ghetto. -
Thurgood Marshall Making a Difference
In 1961, President Kennedy nominated Marshall to the U.S Court of Appeals. Lyndon Johnson picked Marshall for U.S solicitor general in 1965 and two years later named him as the first African-American Supreme Court justice. In that role, he remained a strong advocate of civil rights until he retired in 1991. -
Martin Luther King JR is Assassinated
In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War. In 1968 King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
This was law that ended discrimination in housing. Ending the De Jure segregation by bringing about legal protection for the civil rights of all Americans. After school segregation ended, the numbers of African Americans who finished high school and who went to college sky rocked. This led to better jobs and business opportunities.
