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Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer Plessy had been convicted arrested for sitting in a coach labeled "White's Only". The court said facilities could be separate but they had to be equal. -
Founding of NAACP
W.E.B Dubois urged blacks to fight discrimination rather than subdue to it. He joined Jane Addams and other reformers in forming the " National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" or the NAACP -
Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball
In 1947 Branch Rickey, general manager, of the Brooklyn Dodgers signed an African American veteran named Jackie Robinson. At the end of his first season he was named Rookie of the Year. -
Integrating the Military
President Harry S. Truman proposed laws to make lynching a federal crime. In 1948 he ordered the integration of all units of the armed forces -
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
Oliver Brown wanted his daughter to go to a school closer to home instead of having to walk a long distance to get to the African American school. He wanted her to go to the whites school closer to home so he sued the Topeka Board of Education -
Murder of Emmet Till
The murder of a young colored boy in the south after he flirted with a white mans wife -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A boycott started by MLK Jr. to protest the segregation of the bus system after Rosa Parks was arrested. Helped desegregate the bus system. -
Little Rock
Nine National guard were called to protect a group of colored students from mobs in Little Rock, Arkansas -
Greensboro Sit-In
Four African American students walked into a Woolworths counter and sat down, they refused to move until there were served at the all white counter. -
Freedom Rides
A group of 13 civil rights activists rode on buses across the southeast protesting unfair bus laws. -
Birmingham Children's March
A series of non-violent demonstrations performed by over a thousand young people to protest segregation. -
March on Washington
Over 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington to March and protest segregation and get better jobs and freedoms for colored people. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed discrimination based on race, sex, religion or actions, origin -
March On Selma
Martin Luther King Jr. And his supporters marched non-stop for three days from Selma to Montgomery to protest unfair rights -
Malcolm X's assassination
While speaking at a rally in New York Malcolm X was shot to death by members of the Nation of Islam -
Selma March
MLK Jr. And his supporters marched from Selma to Montgomery in three days of constant walking to protest unfair segregation that was still occurring -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
A law signed by Lyndon B. Johnson to allow African Americans voting rights under the 15th a Amendment of 1870. -
Watts Rebellion
A series of race riots that occurred in the Watts neighboorhood of LA and caused over 40 million dollars worth of property damage.