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Supreme Court outlaws school segregation in Brown v. Board Of Education
Warren's Court allowed seperate but equal facilities in public schools. A class action suit was filed against the Board of Education of the city of Topeka, Kansas. The result of the Brown v. Board was a victory for brown and gave African American schools equal teacher's and school supplies as white schools. -
Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her seat.
During this time African Americans had to give up there seat to a white person if there was no where for him to sit. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up when a white man asked her to move. She was arrested shortly after. This caused a boycott on the bus and for 381 days. The city of montgomery was forced to have buses intergrate. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Congress passed the first civil rights act since reconstruction. President Eisenhower signed the act into the law. It was made to protect the civil rights that were already in place. -
Events at Little Rock, Arkansas
Nine Black children went to a school in Little Rock, Arkansas but the National Gaurd was called in and blocked them from coming inside. Eisnenhower then ordered that the troops be sent out and let the kids go to school. A riot broke out when people found out the nine black students had gotten into the school and Eisenhower sent 1,000 troops to help keep things in order and protect the nine students that wanted to get into the school. -
Attack Of The Freedom Riders.
Freedom riders were protesters, black and white, who rode busses together through south America. This was organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordnating Committee. -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
Riots Erupt when James Meredith, a black student, tries to enroll into Ole Miss. The government deplayed U.S Marshals to the riots to try to conain them. Two thirds of them were injured that night. -
Madger Evers assassinated
Madger Everrs was an African American was fought against civil rights and had efforts to over turn segragation laws. He was a field secratery at the NAACP after coming home from world war II.
Madger pulled into his drive way and when he got out was shot in the back by a rifle. He was rushed to the hospital after surviving the gun shot but they refused to take care of him because of his race. He died 50 minutes later because he did not rcieve treatment. -
The March On Washington
The purpose of the March on Washington was to fight for better jobs and to fight for freedom. The famouse speach that was delivered that day was by Martin Luther King Jr. and it was his "I have a dream" speach. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson passes the Civil Rights act of 1964. It was the end of segragation in public places and banned employement descrimination on basis of race, color, religion, sex or national orgin. -
March To Selma
The march to Selma was orginized to fight for the right to vote. The oppisitions they faced during this march was the long walk from Selma to Montgomery while being hated on by whites and police who tried to stop them. -
Thurgood Marshall is first black Supreme Court Justice
Before Thurgood Marshall was a Justice, he was a lawyer and was known for fighting and winning in the Brown v. Board Of Education. This was a monumental event because he was the first African American to be a Supreme Court Justice and it was the right time to do it to show everyone that blacks were just as good as whites. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis, Tennessee where he was planing another march for workers who weren't being paid fairly. He was shot at a Hotel and was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead at 7:05.