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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
After Rosa Parks went to court for her not getting up when asked to move by a white person. Then the Montogomery Improvement Association ro help organize the boycott and negotiate with city leaders for an end to segregation. After Martin Luther King a 26 year old pastor was named leader he progressed the boycott even further. Resulting in his nonviolent actions he persuaded people to keep running this boycott with peace. Then Rosa Parks case of bus segregation was declared unconstitutional. -
Little Rock Nine
In Little Rock,Arkansas had won a court case allowing nine African American students go to Central High with 2,000 white students. The governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus wanted to ue force to make sure the kids didnt enter the school. The government got involved by the district court ordering the governor to remove the troops. Violence continued and then the governement got inolved by sending the Army into Arkansas escorting the students into the school. They still resisted the integration. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
This Civil right act was intended to protect the right of African Americans to vote. He sent the bill in 1956 hoping to divide the Democratic party and get them pro voting rights for Afican Americans. A lot of Southern senators tried to get it not to pass. The Democratic Senate majority leader LBJ made a compromise that enabled the act to get passed by Congress. Therefore the result a civil right division within the Department of Justice was given authority to seek court injuctions -
The Sit In Movement
Four young African Americans Joseph McNeil,Ezell Blair Jr, David Richmond, Franklin McCain were admitted at a college in North Carolina. McNeil wanted to do a sit in at a white only lunch counters. They went into a place called Woolworths bought school supplies and then ordered coffee at the lunch counter. Then they were refused service and then they said they would stay everyday unitl they were served. SNCC helped desegregate public facilities in dozens of Southern commmunities. -
James Meredith and the desegregation of the University of Mississppi
An African American air force veteran James Meredith applied for a transfer to the University of Mississppi. In September 1962 he tried applying again and the governor Ross Barnett blocked his way all the time. Kennedy frustrated dispatched 500 federal marshalls to direct Meredith through the campus. Fighting broke out and 160 marshalls were wounded. As a result Meredith still attented the university under federal guard. Also he graduated in August -
Freedom Riders
Teams of African Americans and white volunteers many of whom were college students, to travel into the South to draw attetion to its refusal to integrate bus terminals. At every bus stop there was white mobs. Police commissioner Theophilus Eugene Bull Connor said many officers were off or given the day off. Violence in Alamaba made news all over and Kennedy was just appointed less than four months and now he felt he had to contain the violence -
Protests in Birmingham
In the spring of 1963 King had started doing protests in Alabama in response of tryng to get Kennedy to actively support civil rights. 8 days later King was arrested and thrown in jail. Even after he got out they continued the protests and Bull Connor responded with dogs,high pressure hoses and force to hurt the protestors. Now Kennedy with the pressure building on him he told his aides to prepare a new bill for civil rights -
March on Washington
In a effort to try and help Kennedy help push the civil rights bill through Congress. One of Kings friends suggested to have a march on Washington. Then they made it happened more than 200,000 of all races went to Washington D.C.. Thats where Martin gave his sppech about his dream of equality and freedom for all. Even after his outstanding speech opposers in Congress still slowed the bill being passed. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
After a lot of votes and debate and hassle the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was finally passed.It was one of the most comprehensive civil rights law ever enacted. Gave federal government power to prevent racial discrimination from all over the country. It estalished EEOC monitors all segregation throught the states with work schools and also with transportation. -
Selma March
The main point for the civil rights campaign was in Selma, Alabama. They wanted to get all the African Ameicans to be more involved in voting. Martin Luther King fought for their voting rights but it led to 2,000 African Americans arrests but they didnt stop their efforts. From Selma to Montgomery they walked with over 500 protestors acroos 80 km. 70 African Americans were left brutally beaten and was later known Bloody Sunday and Lydon Joohnson was furious and later proposed a new voting act. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
One of the major bills passed in 1965 more than 250,000 African Americans were registered voters. Then more African American elected officials increased in numbers. The Civil Rights Movement has now been on the move and now they are focusing on fixing poverty and the ghetto slums in the African American life -
Assisination of Martin Luther King
Going to a protest in Tennessee with the SCLC to promote a poor peoples campaign. King well known all around thw world was very loved but also heavily disliked throughout the nation. As he standing on his balcony a sniper shot down the legendary figure dying immidietaly. The nation was devasted and everyone was mourning Kings death. After his death Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 outlawed discrimination in housing sales and rentals.
