Civil Rights Movement

By Hamza99

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown V. Board of Education was a landmark case which decided that segeration was uncostitutional. Earlier Plessy V. Ferguson ruled that segeration was costitutional as long as the facilities were "seperate but equal". Brown V Board started as a result of black schools being overpopulated and under funded unlike the white schools. Greensboro was the first city to abide by to Brown V. Board of Education, the desegeration was peaceful unlike Little Rock.

  • Rosa Park

    On December 1 1955 Rosa Parks reefused to give up her seat for a white passanger as a result she was arrested. Before she was arrested she attened a NAACP meeting in Tennesse which the topic was civil disobedience. Most of Montgomery's 50,000 African Americans boycotted, the boycott lasted 381 days, and the bus company lost 80% of their revenue. In November 1956 under a federal order Montgomery desegerated the buses.

  • Desegeration of Little Rock

    Nine African American students were chosen to attend Little Rock Centrel High School. Arkanas govener Orval Faubus sent the National Gaurd to prevent the studnets from entering, but Eisnhower sent federal troops to protect the Little Rock Nine. The students were harassed all that school year, but only one of the Little Rock Nine graduated because Little Rock shut down all the public schools instead of integrating all of the schools.

  • Sit-ins

    On Febuary 1 1960 four African American students sat down at the white section of the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro. After being denied service they asked the cashier why their money was good everywhere but the lunch counter. This sit-in inspired many others in southern cities.

  • March on Washington

    The March on Washington was planned by Philip Randolph and Martin Luther King. Between 200,000- 300,000 people demonstrated in front of the Lincoln Memorial. This is were MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech"

  • Black Power Movement

    The black power movement was made public by The Black Panther Party. They followed the ideology of Malcolm X and they took a "by any means necessary" approach towards inequality. The movement also believed that violence was necessary to obtain equality.