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The New Orleans school desegregation crisis was a period of intense public resistance in New Orleans that followed the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation of public schools was unconstitutional
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He was shopping at a store owned by Roy and Carolyn Bryant—and someone said he possibly whistled at Mrs. Bryant, a white woman. At some point around August 28, he was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, had a large metal fan tied to his neck with barbed wire, and was thrown into the Tallahatchie River. -
Rosa Parks started this movement/protest because she refused to give her seat up to a white guy on a bus and that's how the Montgomery bus boycott started. -
the little rock nine movement was a group of kids who had a school close to their houses and they couldn't go because it was an all white school and they had to walk to a different school. -
On September 30, 1962, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
The Nashville sit-ins were a nonviolent protest in 1960 that led to the desegregation of lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. The sit-ins were a turning point in the civil rights movement in the South. -
The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961. This movement was founded by local black leaders and ministers, as well as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme court. -
James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss. In 1962, James H. Meredith Jr., an African American Air Force veteran, applied for admission.
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In April 1963, the Birmingham Campaign began in Birmingham, Alabama, with protests, sit-ins, and marches to end segregation. The campaign was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference , and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights -
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965 was a turning point in the civil rights movement. The violent attack on peaceful marchers galvanized support for voting rights and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
The Poor People's Campaign, or Poor People's March on Washington, was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States.