Civil Rights Movement Then and Now

By tbullard76

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
    President Abraham Lincoln issued Emmancipation proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863 , as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The Proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states" are, and henceforward shall be free".
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    Civil Rights Movement Then and Now

  • Jim Crow Laws

    http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1559.html
    Jim Crowe laws were statues and ordinances established between 1874 and 1975 to separate white and black races in the American south. In theory, it was to create :" separate but equal" treatment , but in practice Jim Crowe laws to condemn balck citizens to inferior treatent and facilities.

  • Creation of NAACP

    http://www.naacp.org/pag
    Feb. 1909 NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest, and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. It has millions of supporters throughout the U.S.and the world being advocates for civil rights in their communities campaigning for equal opportunities and conductiong voter mobilization.
    The principle objective of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational,social, and economic equality of minority group citizens of U.S. and elimiante prejudice.

  • Black Wall Street was bombed

    http://sfbayview.com/2011/02/what-happened-to-black-wall-street-on-june-1-1921/
    lack American's most prosperous community, Black Wall Street inf Tulsa, OK, went up in flames June 1,1921, in the KKK ledTulsa Race Riot According to Wikipedia , " During the 16 hours of the assault over 800 people were admitted to local hospitals with injuries; an estimated10,000 were left homeless, and 35 citiy blocks composed of 1256 residences were destroyed by fire caused by bombing"

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka
    A unanimous decision handed down by Supreme Court on May 17, 1954, ended federal tolerance of racial segregation .
    In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896, the court ,ruled that "separate but equal" accomodations on railroad cars conformed to the Fourteenth Amendments guarantee of equal protection. That decision was used to justify segregating all public facilities, including schools.

  • Murder of Emmit Till

    While visiting family in Money, MS.,14 year old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, IL is brutually murdered for flirting with a white woman four days ealrier, Te woman's husband and her brother -made Emmett carry a 75lb. cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchee River and ordered him to take off his clothes , the two men the beat him nearly to death, gauged out his eye, shot him in the head, and threw his body tied to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire, into the river.

  • March on Washington Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream Speech"

    http://www.infoplease.com/spot/marchonwashington.html
    March on washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, DC on August 28,1963. Atended by some 250,000 people , it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital and one of the first to have extensive television coverage.

  • Murder of Medgar Evars

    http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmjustice2.html
    On June 12 1963, Medgar Evers ,37 Civil rights activist and field secretaary for the NAACP in MS was shot in tyhr back while walking home . His two small children witnessed his murder. In his arms were tee shirts tata said "Jim Crow must go". The gun that killed Evers was found with fingerprints, and the suspect, white supremicist Byron De La Beckworth, was swiftly arrested. He went to trial but jurors was deadlocked.

  • Assasination of John F. Kennedy

    http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/jfk.htm
    On November 22,1963, a motorcade led bt Dallas police and secret service slowly made its way through the streets of Dallas making the way throughthe cheering crowd. By 12:30 it was approaching its end as it slowed to make a sharp left -hand turn in front of the Texas School Book Depository Building. Suddenly the festive atmosphere was shattered by the sound of three shots and immediately replaced with horror and chaos.Lee Harvey fled the scene.

  • Malcom X assainated

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/26/malcolmx.killer/
    On Februaray 21,1965, the former Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, was shot and killed by assassin identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address the Organizatiom of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. He was 39.

  • March in Selma, Al in support of voting rights

    http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march
    In early 1965 Martin Luther King Jr. marched from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistane by state local authorities. The focus was the voter registration campaign for African American . As a result only 2% eligible workers had anaged to register.

  • Black Panthers founded

    https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/
    In October 1966, in Oakland CA, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded thre Black Panther Party for self-defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the US government and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.

  • MArtin Luther King assassinated

    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dr-king-is-assassinated
    On April 14, 1968 after 6 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr, was fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second story room at the Lorraine Motelin Memphis, TN. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support sanitation workers strike and on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. He was pronounced dead after arriving at a Memphis Hospital. He was 39 years old.

  • President Joshnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1968

    https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/blog/index.php/2012/04/11/on-this-day-the-civil-rights-act-of-1968/
    Civil Righs Act 1968 , President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil right Act of 1968, expanding and earlier civil rights legislation through its provisions for equal housing.The Act also included "Indian Bill of Rights" to extend protection to Native Americans- provides for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin.

  • Black Lives Matter Movement

    http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
    In the summer of 2013, after George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the movement began with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The movement was co-founded by three black community organizers; Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extra judicial killings of black people by police and vigilantes.