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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is Founded
The Congress of Racial Equality is founded in Chicago by an interracial group of students.
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Brown vs. Board of Education
Declared that "seperate but equal" was unconstitional because everyone psychologically thought that whites were superior to blacks. -
Rosa Parks Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. She was already in the black section and claimed she had worked constantly and was exhausted. She was arrested and fined. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Large-scale boycott began and African Americans loaded themselves on buses. Also other groups refused to ride any segregated buses for nearly a year. This was a time when Martin Luther King Jr. started gaining attention and became a prominent national leader. -
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is Created
Martin Luther King Jr. is elected as leader for this organization that believed in non-violent protests. They helped stop segregation in many places. -
Little Rock Nine
A crowd of angry white people and Guard did not allow nine African American students from entering their high school for nearly three weeks. This was resolved when Eisenhower sent troops to protect them. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Established a federal Civil Rights Commission to investigate violations of civil rights. Created a civil rights division within the Justice Department to enforce civil rights laws -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is Created
Committee that came together to conduct sit-ins and other nonviolent protests. These were successful in integrating many shops that were segregated. -
Greensboro Sit-In
Students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina had a nonviolent sit-in. This led to a greater sit in movement. -
Fighting Their Way into Schools
Many African American students were struggling to get into white-only schools/universities. The governement started allowing some of them into colleges and after plently of violence, some of them graduated. An exmaple of this was James Meredith who was protected throughout his time at the University of Mississippi. -
Freedom Riders
Thirteen volunteers went from DC to New Orleans to use white-only restrooms and public areas. At first they only faced mild harrassmant, but as they got farther, they were firebombed by a swarm of white people and beaten. The Freedom Riders suffered permanant brain damage. No police arrived at the scene. -
The Albany Movement
Since local officials were ignoring the Interstate Commerce Commission’s new integration rules, members of the SNCC started sit ins but they were arrested. Martin Luther Kinh Jr. arrived and was arrested. He told others to join him so the jails could be filled up. This was successful and King's fine was paid for so he got let out of jail. Once he left Albany, other people continued protests but were unsuccessful. -
Voter Education Project
Several groups like the CORE and SNCC assisted in creating the Voter Education Project. This project was made to help register southern African Americans so they would be able to vote. After murder and violence of people involved in this 1.4 million of the 5 million African Americans in the South were registered to vote. -
The Twenty-fourth Amendment
The amendment banned states from taxing citizens to vote. The South used these taxes so that African Americans wouldn't be able to vote. -
Executive Order 11063
Banned racial and religious discrimination in housing built or purchased with federal aid. -
The Birmingham Campaign
King gathered many African Americans from different age groups and had countless protests and sit-ins. The nation watched as ost of them were arrested and jailed. Local authorities used high-pressured hoses to break apart nearly 2,500 African Americans. After all the pain and fortitude, King succeeded with his demands. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
The leader of the NAACP, Medgar Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The attention was focusing more on problems like this after his assassination. -
Freedom Summer
This was a time when volunteers were trained to register African Americans so that they would be able to vote. Many of the trainers were people from the SNCC. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Banned discrimination in employment based on race, gender, religion, or national origin. Banned discrimination in public accommodations. Applied federal power to speed integration of schools and other public facilities. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Suspended literacy tests and other devices used to exclude black voters. Authorized federal supervision of voter registration. Allowed federal workers to register voters. -
Fair Housing Act
Banned racial discrimination in the sale, rental, or financing of housing. Made harming civil rights workers a federal crime.
