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The montgomery Bus Boycott
Was an association to run the boycott and to negotiate with city leaderes for an end to segregation. They elected Martin Luther King Jr. There was a meeting, in there he encouraged peope to protest.But the protest ha to be peaceful. He believed the moral way to end segregation and racism was through nonviolent passive resistance. The government would would force the end to it due to oublic opinion. it became viral nd laws came segregtion on buses required unconstitutional, -
The Little Rock 9
When Arkansas won a court order requiring 9african americans to got to school with 2000 white students. orval Faubus was against it and wantd to prevent them from coming to the all white school.He sent troops to surround the school and after a conference with eisenhower to remove the troops. 2 aftrian american reporters were beat.The students came and troops always had to stay at little rock school for the rest of the year.officails in little rock contiuned to resist integration. 1959=integrate. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
congress passed the first civil rights law since Reconstruction. The civil rights act of 1957 was intened to protect the right of african americans to vote. thy wanted to convince african americans to vote Republican. Lyndon Johnson put together a compromise to enable the act to pass.it created a civil rights division snd gve the authority to seek court injuctions against anyone interfering wit the right to vote. after the bill passed SCLC registered 2 million african american new voters. -
The Sit- in Movement
when four black students from north carolina A&T college sat down at a Woolworth lunch center counter in downton Greensboro, NC. it was a series of nonviolent protests, leading to the woolworth department store chasin removing its policy of raciasl segregation in the Southern
US. it was all about whites only. The SNCC was when the students agreed wiht Baker. When african americans made up most of the SNCC, at the end in the deep south A.A. were registered to vote now. -
The freedom riders
the teerm freedom rider is described as activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern US. Due to the following years the challenge to the non enforcementof the US SuprememCourt decisions. when african americans were assulted on the busses, when they arrived they still were getting things trown at the busses,the attack made it on the news and americans were shocked. President JFk compelled the violent in control. -
James Meredith and the Desegregation of the University of Mississippi
James Meredith was a freedom rider, a civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend thr University of Mississippi. The university first avoided the complying witht the supreme court ruling ending segregration educattion, even the governor was rejecting his offer to attend the school. kenndey ordered matshalls to escort james to the school, with trash and assult towards him , he attenedethe school with guards around him at all times he later graduate that august. -
Protests in Birmingham
during this time period is when high school students are hit by high-pressure water jet from fire hoses during a peaceful walk in Birmingham. many causes led to this such as racail discrimination in employment, racail discrimination in public accommodations, Failed SCLC campaign in Albany movement, and failure ACMHR campaign the bus boycott. after the brutality kenndey ordered his aides to prepare a new civil rights bill. -
The March on Washington
This was the largest political rallies for human rights in the US history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. MLK spoke wisely abut equallity and freedom for all Americans. Most of the marchers were black to support MLK and his oublic announcements. Some causes was the signing of the emancipation Proclamation , mass movements and demonstrations throughout the southern US, and the didplay of the violent tactics during the protests in Birmingham. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This is a landmark piece of the civil rights legislation in the united states that outlawed discrimination based on race, coloor, religion, sex or national origin. it was the most sweeping since reconstruction. Wallace stoood in the way of the African Americans from enrolling the university of alabama, until marshals ordered him to move out of there way. following day white segregationist murdered medgar evers a civil rights activist in mississippi, JFK siezed the momentto announce his new bill -
The Selma March
freedom march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, led by masrtin Luther King Jr.s Southerm Christian Leadership Conference made Selma, Alabama the focus of its efforts to register african american voters in the South. an alabama state troopers attack civil rights demonstrator outside Selma, on Bloody Sunday. Some causes was failure voter registration campaign and African Americans obstructed from registering to vote. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by president lyndon johnson, he aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their to vote under the 15th amendment to the constitution of the US. Congress of racial equality. its as landmark iece of federal legislation in the us thta prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
james earl ray as a confirmed racist and small- time criminal, he began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther king jr. in early 1968. he shot and killed king in Memphis, confessing to the crime the following March. his assassnation led to an outpouring of anger among black americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal hpusing bill that would be the last significant legislatuve achievment of the civil rights era.
