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Brown VS. Board of Ed.
Brown was fighting the Board of Ed. because , he didnt think that negro and white children should be seporated int he school district . He said that as long as we kept them seporate they wernt really equil , and he was fighting for all the children blacks and whites to feel equil. -
Emmett till
Emmett Till was born on July 25,1941 , and was kille din Augest 28th of 1955 for saying "good bye baby" to a young white girl. he liked her but eh wasnt allowed to because he was black , some men herd him say that he couldnt say that to white girls and they were affended by it. so one night they went to his house and brutillly murderd him. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was told by a bus driver to get up and move to the back of the bus so a white man could take her seat , she refused to get out of the seat the bus driver said " i will have you arrested" Rosa said " you may do that , so eh called the police and she was arrested but soon her name was in the news papers she had made a stand for the blacks and then the people started to protest. -
Littler rock 9
On September 20, 1957, Judge Ronald N. Davies granted the NAACP lawyers, Thurgood Marshall and Wiley Branton, the right to stop Governor from using the National Guard to stop the students from entering the high school. The Governor finally agreed with them about not using the National Guard, but he wished the nine would stay away from Central High until integration could occur without violence. He knew there would be violence. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested on May 4,1960 because he was trying to defend the blacks. he was going on strike to defend people . -
Freedom Riders
The attackers pelted the vehicle with rocks and bricks, slashed tires, smashed windows with pipes and axes and lobbed a firebomb through a broken window. As smoke and flames filled the bus, the mob barricaded the door. "Burn them alive," somebody cried out. "Fry the goddamn niggers." An exploding fuel tank and warning shots from arriving state troopers forced the rabble back and allowed the riders to escape the inferno. Even then some were pummeled with baseball bats as they fled. Read more: h -
University of Mississippi desegregated
Two people have been killed and at least 75 injured in rioting at the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford. Hundreds of extra troops have been brought in to join Federal forces already stationed in the nearby town of Oxford as the violence spread to its streets. The protesters are angry at the admission of James Meredith, a black American, to the university. -
March on Washington movement
After Birmingham, President Kennedy proposed a new civil rights bill. To show that the bill had widespread support, civil rights groups united to organize a March on Washington. Organizers hoped to draw a crowd of 100,000, but instead over 250,000 people from around the nation, arriving in more than thirty special trains and 2,000 chartered buses, descended on Washington, DC on August 28, 1963. There, they heard speeches and songs from numerous activists, artists, and civil rights leaders. Marti -
Johnson sighns Civil rights movement
The bill also ended legal discrimination in employment on the basis of race or sex, and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce the law. The signing ceremony represented a personal triumph for Johnson, who lobbied tirelessly on behalf of the bill. Recordings of the president's phone conversations reveal his relentless campaign to wrangle lawmakers in favor of the controversial bill. -
Malcome X is shot dead
Malcolm X, the Negro nationalist leader, was assassinated while addressing a meeting in Harlem today. He fell after a barrage of shots. Later, two Negro men were arrested and charged with murder. -
Selma to Montgomery march
On Sunday March 7, 1965, about six hundred people began a fifty-four mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot three weeks earlier by an state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration. On the outskirts of Selma, after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the marchers, in plain sight of photographers and journalists, were -
Black panthers
The Black Panthers were formed in California in 1966 and they played a short but important part in the civil rights movement. The Black Panthers believed that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luther King had failed and any promised changes to their lifestyle via the 'traditional' civil rights movement, would take too long to be implemented or simply not introduced -
Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a shot rang out. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, now lay sprawled on the balcony's floor. A gaping wound covered a large portion of his jaw and neck. A great man who had spent thirteen years of his life dedicating himself to nonviolent protest had been felled by a sniper's bullet.
