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Brown Vs. Board Of Education
This event that had happened is the most significant court trial cases during the Civil Rights movement. The supreme court case had ended the segregation in schools and had let African American children start enrolling and learning and taking part in the all white schools and all white activities. The Board of Education for the all white schools didn't want the African American children to start going to school at the all white schools and wanted to keep the school segregated. -
Bus Boycott
In 1955 on December 20th, an African American named Rosa Parks was on the bus going home from a long day at work. When a white person had gotten on the bus and told Rosa to move to a different seat in the back of the bus, she refused. The police were called and Rosa went calmly but this had started many African Americans to stop riding buses because they were not able to sit wherever they wanted and white people were able to tell them to move. Martin Luther King Jr and Ralph Abernathy took part. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African American teenagers were prevented from entering the racially segregated school until the schools had desegregated and it became unconstitutional to have segregated schools. The same African American students were finally enrolled in the all white school they were trying to enter before and graduated from the same exact school. The nine students had to be escorted into the school by military officials. -
Woolworth's Sit-In
Four African American students were at a lunch counter waiting to be served some food. Several times they had asked for service from the waitresses but they had ignored them and paid them no attention at all. The students had even asked politely to have the services of the waitresses. The waitresses were white and when the students had asked, the waitresses had ignored them and refused to give them service. This had led to the Woolworth's Sit-in where the students refused to leave the counter. -
Freedom Rides
On the buses, African Americans and white people were sat next to each other on the bus to show that there should not be another segregated bus where African Americans were treated poorly. After hard days of work and wanting to sit on the ride home and being told to move to a different seat was banned after the incident of Rosa Park's refusal to move from her seat after being told by a white person that they wanted to sit where Rosa was and Rosa had refused the white woman. -
Mississippi Riot
In Mississippi, there was an African American who had brought up to the court's that he had wanted to go to an all white's school. After the court had allowed him to go to the all white school, riots had broken out. The riots were violent and in some of the extreme cases, even death. The African American also had to be escorted into the school by police officials. This event had also paved a way for more equality in the U.S. There had also been many protests about him coming to that school. -
March on Washington
Many people, African Americans and whites alike had gathered to hear the most famous speech in history given by Martin Luther King Jr. 'I have a dream' speech which had brought the people who were racist to one another. The people who wanted nothing to do with African Americans. This speech had brought together many people and have united an entire nation through words. The people had cheered and have worked on racism for a long time to be rid of it due to this famous event and speech. -
Birmington
Martin Luther King Jr. had given his famous speech and all the people, African Americans and whites alike, are hoping for change to ensure all equality for African Americans and white people as well. The events for equality had been a long path to be paved by the people. It has taken so much to keep hoping that all people would be able to be equal in anything and everything they African Americans and white people alike do. -
Selma
Selma was a march. It was supposed to be a peaceful march that had gone wrong. It had turned into a violent display of hate. Over six hundred people from Selma Alabama took part in the brutal march. The march resembled the hatred for the Civil Rights Movement. The march was nicknamed 'Bloody Sunday' due to brutality and violence that the troops displayed against the peacefulness demonstrators partaking in the march. -
Fair Housing Act
The Fair Housing Act was to help get African American's the right to own houses and and buy/sell houses. They at first weren't allowed to buy a house due to racial discrimination and they also had very awful landlords in their apartments.
