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Brown v. Board of Education
In Brown v. Board of Education the supreme court outlaws segregation in schools. In the court case of Plessy v. Fergueson the ruling was seperate was ok as long as the were equal but they were not equal facilities. What started the case was a girl was denied access to a white school. And the outcome was she was allowed to go to the school because segregation in schools was unconstitutional. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a young man who was visiting family and made the mistake of talking to a white women in the wrong way in the south he was taken from his family members home and brutally killed and mutelated. however the white men who were accused were never convicted of the crime they comited -
Rosa parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat
When she was told to give up her bus seat Rosa Parks refused but there was a law that said she had to give up her seat to a white passenger if no other seats were available that she did not comply with therefore it was a big deal and she was arrested.and her refusal started a movement and boycott to get desegregation on buses. -
Segregated seats No more
The supreme court ruled on this date that segregated seating on busses was unconstitutional -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
In August 1957 Congress passed the first civil rights act since reconstruction and the Civil rights act 1957 stated that everyone over 18 is allowed to vote freely for whoever they want without opposition and it created a 6 person committee to investigate any infringements on this act. -
Events at Little rock, Arkansas
The Arkansas Governor was denying access to African American students using the national guard to enforce their denial of access.And eventually Army troops from the 101st airborne were sent in to escort the students into the school to protect them -
Eisenhower sends troops to Little Rock
In little rock Nine African american students were being stopped from entering the school by national guard troops so president Eisenhower for the first time ever sent federal troops to intervene in a civil rights event and garuntee the students saftey. -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
The freedom were a collection of people that would ride buses into the deep south to demonstrate racial inequality and they wanted desegregation of buses. They were recruited to do this task by the congress of racial equality (c.o.r.e).They were not all African Americans and some whites did join in on the rides of protest. -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
he was faced directly by the governor of Mississippi who personally denied Meredith access. President Kennedy would try to solve this problem via private telephone calls with the governor -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist and field secretary for Naacp who worked at the University of Mississippi that worked hard to fight segregation he also volunteered for the invasion of Normandy. He was shot in the back on this date by a man that didn't get convicted for a long time after all white juries would find him innocent. -
The March on Washington
The march was meant to demonstarte that the African Americans would not stop until they were treated freely and weren't discriminated against.At the end of this March Martin Luther king Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speach -
Freedom summer Begins
Freedom summer was a initiative to register more black voters in Mississippi that was part of a larger of the congress of racial equality -
Civil rights act of 1964
congress Passed this law but it was signed into act by President Lyndon B Johnson who was sworn into power after the assassination of JFK.This civil rights act stated that discrimination based on race,sex,Religion, or national origin was prohibited. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson killed
In Marion, Alabama a peaceful marcher name Jimmie Lee Jackson was brutally beaten and the killed by Alabama state trooper James Bonard Fowler. -
March to Selma
The march was organized to promote the registration of black voters in the south. They faced great opposition from local law enforcement including being sprayed by a firehose. The final result was they pushed through the opposition to demonstrate the need for registering black voters. -
Thurgood Marshall First black supreme court justice
he was a black civil defense lawyer that worked with the NAACP and because it was the highest position a African American has ever held -
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Mlk Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee while meeting to prepare for a march on behalf of sanitation workers by a lone assassin using a 30.06 Remington rifle. His death started many riots this was a big deal because he made many social advances in this country and stood up for his and others rights.
