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Plessy v. Ferguson
It was a famous United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" -
Brown v. Board
A surpeme court case that came up when a woman, Linda Brown complained about her childs school distance. The only blacks school was 8 miles away, and the only whites school was about 2 blocks. away. The NAACP lawyer that picked the cae up was Thurgood Marshall. -
The Brutal Lynching of Emmit Till
American Freedom Stories: Emmett Till - Legacy
A fourteen year old boy walks into Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market in Money, Mississippi, to buy some bubble gum. It was reported that he was heard whistling at the white storeowner, Carolyn Bryant. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
December 1, 1955 marks the day that a woman named, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man could sit. Little did she know that she would spark the American Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century. The location was Montgomery, Alabama. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Nine refers to to the nine black students that went to the first integrated school in Arkansas. The governor didn't like this idea though, so he brought in the Arkansas National Guard to only admit white students. Then President Eisenhower sent in Paratroopers from the U.S. National Guard to escort the nine black students to Central High School. -
Sit-Ins
Civil Rights Movement Greensboro & Nashville Sit-Ins - Created with WeVideo Sit-ins are a way of protesting students often participated in. They are fighting for their right to be served in public places no matter where they sat. The students would also often role play the situation to prepare them for the worst when they did the real thing. They created the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.)The Sit-Ins I wrote about are located in Nashville, Tennessee. There were actually many more throughout the U.S. located in different places. -
Freedom Rides
These were attempts to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals often particpated in by groups of African-Americans and white civil right activist. This group of 13 people were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality which is a civil rights group. Their goal was to integrate facilities at the bus terminals along the way into the Deep South. -
Stricter regulations on Interstate Commerce Commission
The day President Kennedy announces that he has ordered the Interstate Commerce Commission to enact stricter regulations and fines for buses and facilities that refuse to integrate. Although he enacts these rules and regualtions, young white and black activists continue to make Freedom Rides. -
Birmingham Campaign
This campaign was the climax of the modern Civil Rights Movement. The response to the demonstrations against white supremacy forced the federal government to get nvolved. The city's commisioner used violent force like police dogs and fire hoses as a response against the nonviolent black activists. -
March on Washington
I have a dream - Martin Luther King and the March on Washington in full HD One of the largest political rallies for human rights in history for the United States. Nearly 200,000 people joined the march in Washington, D.C. All to see MLK give his famous, "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act
Ended Segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, and national origin. It is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. It was first proposed by John F. Kennedy. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African American nationalist and religious leader who was assassinated by rival Black Muslims. He was assassinted during his addressing to his Orgnization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. -
Bloody Sunday (Selma, AL)
Bloody Sunday in Selma Alabama John Lewis along with other activists led six hundred marchers to cross the Edmund Pettus bridge over the Alabama River to Montgomery. Not to far on the bridge, they were stopped by Alabama State troopers and local police who ordered them to turn around. When the marchers refused to do so, the officers began to shoot teargas along with beating the nonviolent protesters with billy clubs; Hospitalizing over fifty people. -
Voting Rights Act
Signed into law by President B. Johnson on August 6, 1965. It aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th amendment.This act significatly widened the franchise and is considered among the far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in history. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He had led many civil rights movements ever since the early 1950's by using non-violent tactics along with combination of powerful words. These non-violent acts were sit-ins, protest marches, and boycotts to fight segregation. He was assasinated at his motel in Memphis, TN leaving the whole country in a wave of shock.
