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A court case that stated that "separate but equal" is constitutional.
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Sylvia Mendez was a hispanic student who's father fought to have the Westminster school district allow hispanic students to go to school with white students.
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A court case that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
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Two white men killed Emmit Till for whistling at a white woman.
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Rosa Parks was sitting on the front row of a bus, when a white person came on the bus and she was told to give up her seat. She refused and was arrested.
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The black community held a citywide boycott of the buses in Montgomery, Alabama. It lasted over a year, but it should only have lasted a couple of days or weeks.
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9 black students were entering a white school, but they were blocked by the National guard because of the governor of Alabama's orders.
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Four black students from NC A & T college came in a restaurant and sat in the white section. They were refused to be served, but they wouldn't leave until they were.
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Civil Rights activists, Freedom Riders, rode on buses in the South, and many of them were arrested, others were met with great hostility.
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Martin Luther King Jr gave his speech at Lincoln's Memorial about freedom and equality for black people.
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The March on Washington had 6 main goals, which all came down to black people wanting freedom. Martin Luther King gave his speech during this march.
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3 KKK members bombed a church, killing 4 black girls. The church was a popular location for civil rights meetings.
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This amendment abolished poll taxes which kept African Americans from voting.
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A registration project in Mississippi to expand voting rights in the South for blacks.
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This act ended discrimination of all kinds, and provided the governments with the power to enforce desegregation.
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In this march, 600 people began to walk 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery. 6 blocks in, state police, some even on horseback, started attacking the marchers.
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All laws that kept Southern blacks from voting were now against the law.
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This order established requirements for the non-discrimination of hiring and employment. (You can't not be hired because of race.)
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The Black Panther Party was a group of people who believed in self- defense of minority communities. They were fighting against the US government for freedom.
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James Ray escapes from prison and killed Martin Luther King.
