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Brown V. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional and overturned Plessy V. Ferguson and ended segregation in schools, yet many schools still remained segregation. -
Emmitt Till
A 14 year old African American from Chicago was brutally murdered in Mississippi while staying with his uncle for saying "Bye Baby" to a white woman while leaving a store and had a open casket funeral. It started a lot of different of Civil Rights Movements and showed how bad it was for African Americans in the South. -
Rosa Parks
African American secratary for the NAACP Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger which started the bus boycott. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A protest started lead by Martin Luther King Jr. where African Americans refused to ride city buses (boycotted) to make them loose money which lasted over a year and fully ended segregation on public transportation. -
Little Rock Nine
When the first nine African American students attend an all white highschool, all of them experienced being harrassed, tormented, discriminated, racism, death threats, bullying etc, just because they were black. Only one graduated and one was expelled for retaliating, the rest dropped out because of the daily harrassment. -
Sit Ins
Where at first only four African Americans used a form of civil disobediance to make a statement by sitting at the white only lunch counters and refusing to leave but more and more people including white people started to join and during the sit ins they experienced physical beatings, racism, refused service, food and hot drinks poured on them, called names and racial slurs, yelled at, pulled out of their seats etc. The sit ins spread to 55 cities and integrated lunch counters. -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges was the first black child to attend an all white school, Ruby was only six years old and still experienced threats and racism and had to be escorted by four armed federal marshalls. Most of the white students parents boycotted the school and refused to have their children learn with an african american girl in the same school. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders were college students who wanted integration on interstate buses and bathrooms, they would go around and use the white only bathrooms and protest while doing this their bus got bombed and the KKK beat them. By doing this they got rid of segregation on interstate buses and public restrooms. -
March On Washington
Where 250,000 people marched on Washington for jobs and freedom because they still werent given the equality and rights they were promised. It is also where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech. -
16th Street Baptist Chruch In Birmingham
This was where the KKK bombed a church that was in one of the most segregated cities in America. The bomb killed 4 little girls and injured 22 other people. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was where segregation was banned nation wide and also banned any sort of discrimination in the work place. -
Malcom X Assination
Malcom X was assassinated while during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam. Malcom X's death help make African Americans proud of their herritage and started the Black Power Movement. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was where around 600 people walked to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery (the states capital) in protest of Black voter supression and the literacy test. They were beaten by police officers while protesting. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This was to prevent the use of literacy tests and stoped the states from not allowing people from voting. This helped African Americans be able to vote. -
Martin Luther King's Assassination
Martin Luther King was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennesee by James Earl Ray who was later convicted of his crimes.