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Brown vs. Board
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Ended segregation on Montgomery buses, lead 2 founding of SCLC, makes MLK famous, brought civil rights movement 2 national attention. -
Little Rock Nine
9 black students integrated into Arkansas school, governor wont let them enter the building, Eisenhower sends National Guards 2 school so students could enter. -
Sit-Ins
The basic plan of the sit-ins was that a group of students would go to a lunch counter and ask to be served. If they were, they'd move on to the next lunch counter. If they were not, they would not move until they had been. If they were arrested, a new group would take their place. The students always remained nonviolent and respectful. -
Ole Miss
An African-American man named James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Chaos briefly broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order. -
Birmingham
On 2 May more than 1,000 African American students attempted to march into Downtown Birmingham, and hundreds were arrested. When hundreds more gathered the following day, Commissioner Connor directed local police and fire departments to use force to halt the demonstrations. During the next few days images of children being blasted by high-pressure fire hoses, clubbed by police officers, and attacked by police dogs appeared on television and in newspapers, triggering international outrage. -
March on Washington
Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country (History.com) -
Signing of Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Marching on Selma
This was the first March on Selma. This was also known as Bloody Sunday. It was a protest that marked the political and emotional peak of the American Civil Rights Moevement. -
Voting Rights Act
Johnson used political skills to push VRA thru Congress, banned literacy tests and other unfair tests, sent fed officials to register voters.
