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Truman
Truman signs Executive Order 9981, which states that every person has equal rights and should be treated the same as everyone else. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
The landmark decided that segregation in public schools is not right. Plessy v. Ferguson thought that the schools should be seperate but equal. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. She was working all day and didn't want to have to stand up. She was aressted because of this but soon because of her actions, the black community makes a bus boycott. On December 21 1956 busses are desegregated. -
Murdering of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was visiting family in Mississippi when he whistled at a white women. She got offended by this and he was agresivly mudered and dumped into the Tallahatchi River by two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant. -
Sit-in
Four students from 2 all black schools had a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro. They began to spike an interest in other southern black colleges and universities and more and more students had sit-insin several hundred lunch counters. While this was happening the young protesters organized the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee. (SNCC) -
Freedom Riders
Students of black and white would ride buses throughout the South to test out some of the new laws they had. However some of these buses were burned, and the people on them were abused. -
School
A student named James Meredith becomes the first black student to go to school at the University of Mississippi. This causes lots of riots making President Kennedy send 5,000 federal troops -
Signing
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act 1964. This act prohibits discrimination of all kinds. -
Voting
The Voting Rights act made it easier for blacks in the South to vote. If there were any restrictions against black people voting they were all illegal. -
Civil Rights
Congress passed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. This expanded the non-discrimination laws.
