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The Civil War begins
The civil war beings. Racism war starts. The slave states were publicly threatening secession if the Republicans. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteer soldiers to quell the Southern -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African American students who went to an all white school in Arkansas. There was a lot of racially segregated school. Their names were Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas , Terrence Roberts , Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark , Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals. -
Emmett Till
Emmett was born on July 25, 1941, Chicago, IL. Died on August 28, 1955, Money, MS. Emmett Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The bus Boycott began a chain of similar boycott thought the South. In 1956 they voted to end the segregated busing. In 1955, Martin Luther King Jr. led the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. It established the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department. -
Temple Bombing
The incident was but the most recent in a string of bombings throughout the nation. But the blast shook the city's confidence and rattled its composure. -
Sit-ins
In OklahomaI there wave of students sit-ins and protests that flash like free across the South. The students would not fight bsck. -
Congress of Racial Equality
Over the spring and summer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities. The freedom riders, as they are called, are attacked by angry mobs along the way. It involves more than 1,000 volunteers, black and white. -
James Meredith
Meredith was one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement. In 1962 he became the first black student to successfully enroll at the University of Mississippi. -
march on washington
The March on Wachington was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history. More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington D.C. The reason why this march took place was to get jobs and freedom. -
Birmingham and the Children’s March
Thousands of children left their schools in Birmingham, Alabama, to march for civil rights. Police officers responded by using water cannons and dogs to attack and then arrest the children. -
NAACP
The NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and transportation; to oppose racism; and to ensure African Americans their constitutional rights. -
The Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
Three young civil rights workers disappared. A 21-year-old black Mississippian, James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24. They were murdered near Philadelphia, in Nashoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer -
Malcolm X
Was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. Militant black leader in the United States, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, He was shot to death. -
Dr. King's Assassination
Dr. Kingvwas assassinated by a sniper's on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was the nation's foremost civil rights leader. King returned to Memphis to lead a nonviolent march in support of the city's striking sanitation workers.
