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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education is a U.S. Supreme Court case that ends racial segregation in public schools and other public segregation. This impacted the nation to extend education and make it open to all students. States then started to slowly progress toward integregated schools. -
Emmitt Till
Emmitt Till was a 14 year old African-American boy from Chicago. Emmitt was nearly beaten to death, had his eye gouged out, shot in the head, and finally had his body thrown into the river in Mississippi. This all occurred because Emmitt had been flirting with a 21 year old white woman. The white men that killed him confessed of their crime, but were found innocent by the jury. This tragedy prooved to the nation that colored people were being treated extremely poorly, and to keep fighting for -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a woman who got on the bus one day, she sat down in the fifth row, the first row of seats for blacks. When the white section was filled up, she refused to give up her seat since whites and blacks could not even sit in the same row. She was arrested for this act. This event created the Montgomery bus boycott in the black community that lasted over a year. This boycott allowed blacks to recieve equal rights to public transportation. -
Little Rock Nine
In Little Rock, Arkansas, a formerly all-white high school was addressed with nine black teenagers having the desire to go to school and get an education. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to escort these students to and from school, and through school. This event signifies that the government was siding with the African-Americans, it also shows that these people would deal with any type of abuse to recieve equal rights among everyone. -
Sit-In
In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black college students decided to sit down at a "whites-only" lunch counter. The boys refused to leave after being denied service. The boys were attacked by white people, but it did not stop other students following their lead weeks and months later, creating sit-in protesting throughout North Carolina and the south. Although this strategy was risky and had violent consequences, it was the only way African-Americans could create desegregated lunch counters. -
Freedom Riders
Student volunteers took bus trips throughout the south in the spring and summer to protest against segregation in bus and railway stations, and other travel facilities. These people were attacked by angry mobs along the way. This event caused people to do their part in making a change, uniting the black people, with Martin Luther King Jr.'s non-violent method. -
I Have A Dream
Approximately 200,000 people joined together in Washington D.C. to be apart of the March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a speech named, I have a dream, addressing the importance of nonviolent resistance and equality between all human beings in the United States. MLK Jr. fought for the blacks and and stoof ground for his people and what they deserved. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson sings the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act prohibits discrimination against of all people based on race, color, religion, or national origin. This law allows the federal government the powers to to enforce desegregation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1965
Congress passed the law of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, allowing it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that allowed it difficult for blacks to vote are now made illegal. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
President Johnson signs this act prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
