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Brown V.S Board of Education
Back in the day there were all-white schools and all-black schools so this means that we couldn’t be interracial. There's a book out there called ruby bridges which in this book there's a little black girl whose parents sued so that their daughter could go to a all-white school but no one liked this at all well none of the white people did. In the book you see her walking up the stairs of the school and there are white people calling her names and holding up signs that say mean and nasty things. -
Murder of Emmett Till
A black man was repeatedly flirting with a white female cashier. Doing nothing else but just flirting not touching her or anything but four days later two white men kidnapped him and beat him to death and shot him in the head. The white men went to court but because all the judges was white then they didn't get in trouble. He was only 14 when he died. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Everyone should know this story of a black women that had worked a long day of work and was tired so she set down but back then if a white person came on the bus and wanted to sit a black person had to get up and mor3e but on this day she didn't want to get up she wanted to stay sitting. The police came and removed her from the bus but the black community was not having it anymore and protested. -
Little Rock Crisis
This was about nine African American students that was enrolled in Little Rock Central High School but wasn't aloud to go into the school so when the intervention of president of Eisenhower the African American was able to attend the high school this is one of the most important events that happened. -
Freedom Riders
This were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia. -
Albany Movement
This movement was led by William G. Anderson and this movement inspired lots of the black community to get involved. Even though this brought a lot of people together this movement was a fail. This was all because of a determined opposition but even though it failed it credicted a key lesson strategy and tactics for the national Civil Rights movement. -
March of Washington
This was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in the United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. This happened in Washington and Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of this amazing movement and this led the world to become interracial. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
This was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. This event made a lot of people angry not because white people bombed their church but because four African American girls had died in this bombing. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Selma March
This was led by Martin Luther King Jr. and this was not just blacks who was involved there was white people in the crowed as well but not everyone was with this crowded so police was called to stop this intervention but the reason why this march happend was to let us the world be interracial and everyone get along with one another. Even though the police was called this didn't stop them from doing it two more times in total there was three marches.
