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Civil Rights Movement
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The Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education
The Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education, which came to a final decision on May 17 that “separate but equal” the African Americans and the white people because the schools were unequal but then became a lot more equal so they could go to school peacefully and not feeling any different than anyone else. Also this Supreme Court decision can make any legal school segregation unconstitutional and illegal. -
The 14 year African American that was mudered by two white men.
A Fourteen year old named Chicagoan Emmett was just visiting his family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped by a white man and was brutally beaten, shot, and dumped into the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman in a little shop. The two white men that killed him was J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant and they were arrested for the murder of the 14 year old African American and was acquitted by an all-white jury. It shows just how bad it was to be an African American in the 1950's. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest in the civil rights era so African Americans refused to ride buses. Following the four days before the Montgomery bus boycott started Rosa Parks an African American female was arrested and fined for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Temple Bombing
The Temple bombing was where there were fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entranceway at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue but there was no people hurt or killed. -
First black student is admitted to the University of Mississippi.
James Meredith was the first African American that went to the University of Mississippi an all white school. They first said no when an official of the collage found out that he was an African American so he filed a lawsuit and his case was taken to supreme court. On his first day the entrance was blocked and rioting started and was all over. But he finally gets enrolled on Oct. 1 and was the first African American. He also ran as a Republican candidate for several offices even Congress. -
Martin Luther King Jr. gets arrested
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he was protesting and some of the other people that was protesting with went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama. The court of Birmingham decided that King and the others that were protesting with him was not allowed to protest there. So they couldnt spread the message that good because that was a big town. -
The cops and firemen chased the protesters down and hurt them with fire hoses and dogs.
On July 15,1963 the police of Birmingham, Alabama, used fire hoses and dogs on the people the was protesting for the civil rights movement to show them that they shouldn't be protesting and to hurt them because the fire hoses blew them back into the walls and would knock them down so they couldn't get back up. They also used dogs that chased them down and bit them so they wouldn't protest any more which seemed very harsh for us but back then they did it all the time to African Americans. -
" I have a Dream Speech"
On August 28th Martin Luther king Jr delivered his “I have a Dream Speech” in Washington D.C. at the “ March on Washington” and there were over 250,000 people that joined him to listen to his and many others speech about racial conflicts during that time period. Some of the conflicts were about the whites had a lot more rights than the African Americans like voting and slavery. -
John F. Kennedy Assassination
On November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy was shot by a gunman acting alone in the Texas School Book Depository and the shooter was shooting out a window on the 6th floor. They found him shortly after and his name was Lee Harvey Oswald. It was very important because he played a big role in the civil rights era. He did so many things make laws and try to make America a place where you don't have to be afraid just because your a different color than the rest. -
Martin Luther King Jr. died
On April 4, Martin Luther KIng Jr. died and that was a super important day because he had a huge impact on the civil rights era because he was the one that got more rights for the African Americans that lived in the south. He was also very popular for his actions and well loved by everyone so it was very sad when he died and a lot of people cried and missed him so much because of what he did for them and was very nice and a peaceful protester.
