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The Plessy v. Ferguson
The Plessy v. Ferguson established the separate but equal doctrine. It made public schools equal but segregated. After this case segregation started to spread like wildfire -
Core was created
Congress of Racial Equality or CORE attempted to desegregate restaurants that refused to serve African Americans. They did sit-ins at restaurants that refused to serve African Americans -
Morgan v. Virgina
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Brown v. Board of educaiton
a. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Chief Justice Earl Warren summed up the Court’s decision declaring that in the field of public education the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. -
Rosa Parks
a. Rosa Parks worked as seamstress in Montgomery Alabama and boarded a bus to go home. She sat down in the middle section of bus because the rule was that blacks were only allowed to sit in the middle section of the bus if there were few white people on the bus. Later on the bus started to fill up and then all of seats were filled up. The bus driver noticed that a white man was standing while Parks and three other African Americans were sitting down. The driver asked them to get up and let the -
montogommery bus boycott
The day that Rosa Parks went to court was the day that The Montgomery Bus Boycott started. It began to show support to Parks and it became a huge success. It started a chain reaction for over the next 20 years. -
The Southern Manifest
The Southern Manifesto denounced the Supreme Court’s ruling as a clear abuse of judicial power. This showed retaliation -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
a. Martin Luther King Jr. and other African American ministers created the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This group set out to eliminate segregation from American society and to encourage African Americans to register to vote. -
Orval Faubus
a. The school board won a court order requiring three nine African American students to be admitted to central high. Orval Faubus tried stopping the integration but Eisenhower sent troops to make sure that the students went to school for the rest of the year. -
The Sit In Movement
Joesp McNeil Ezell Blair Jr. David Richmond and Franklin McCain entered Woolworth's and purchased some school supplies without any trouble but when they went to the lunch counter to order coffee. They weren't served so they sat there until it was closed. They next day 29 African American students arrived at Woolworth's. By the end of the week over 300 students were taking part -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Ella Baker and students at Shaw University established the SNCC. -
Freedom Riders
James Farmer organizes the first Freedom Riders to desegregrate interstate -
Register at University of Mississppi
James Merdith Tries to register at University of Mississippi and riots forced Kennedy to send troops -
MLKJ
Martin Luther King Jr. leads protest in Brmingham Alabama police assault the protestors and King is jailed -
I have a dream
King delivers his I Have A Dream speech during the March on Washington in support of new civil rights act -
July 1964
Johnson signs civil rights act of 1964 into law -
March 1965
King leads a march in Selma Alabama to build support for a new voting rights law. The police brutally attack marchers -
August 3 1965
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
