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Plessy v. Ferguson
What Happened:it was the court case that dicided that racial segregation was ok as long as it was under fair and equal conditions so one side had the same thing as the other.
Significane: This gave people a way to treat African Americans differently still and not in a positive way at all. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Whats it about: Was a group of five appeals that took on racial segregation when it came to public school. This was dealt with in the Supreme Court as they argued that black students where not being treated the same with their schooling and there for it was unconstiutional for the schools to be segregated.
Significance: The supreme court then ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional ending it and allowing interratial schooling -
Little Rock School desegregation
What Happened: It was when 9 black students attempted to integrate into a white school but the governor didn’t want them to so he deployed the national guard to keep the black children from going to school.
Significance: the first african american graduated from little rock high school so the schools had become intergrated after the president had stepped in and allowed the students access to the school -
Emmett Till is murdered
What happened: To African American boys went down south from Chicago when there one of the boys, Emmett Till, happened to say goodbye to a white woman in a store. Later that night some ment came to collect him and he was beaten and killed.
Significance: The event was published and Emmett Till's dead beatin body was shown all around and this rose awareness that these acts of violence toward African Americans still occured places. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
What happened: Blacks in montgomery had to sit in the back of the bus and give up their seats for whites one day a woman named Rosa park refused and was arrested and soon other blacks devised a boycott of the bus system in order to get the attention on the issue.
Significane: Because it was now seen as unconstitutional because of the boycott blacks did not have to give up their seats to anyone white or black on the bus. -
Sit-ins in Greensboro/Nashville
Whar Happened: African American college students were tired of segregated food places so they organized a protest where they all gathered in a whites only lunch counter and sat. They were arrested for these acts but waves of students continued to flock to continue these actions until later parents of these students began to boycott buying items in the down town area to help prove the point the students where trying to get across.
Significance: The town got rid of the segregated restruant laws -
March on Birmingham
What happened:School children gathered to make a march because the city was Birmingham was so segregated.
Significance: Because photos and such where showed of the children being sprayed down by fire hoses and attacked by police dogs because the governer ordered it the nation was appaled and soon this caused the mayor to give in and begin to disegregate places in Birmingham giving in to what the marchers had wanted -
March on Washington
What it was: The march on Washington was a civil rights act where African American's marched to Washington as they presented speeches in order to help support the 1964 civil rights act that was trying to be passed.
Significance: It was one of the largest rallies ever held still in history and it helped to get the civil rights act passed. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What Happened: was a major act passed that outlawed discrimination in many ways making working facilities better places as well as schools for targets of racial and other forms of discrimination.
Significance: It helped to fight against racial discrimination a goal that African Americans where working towards. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
What Happened: this act made it so that there was no discrimination when it came to voting. This made it so that there could be no prerequists to vote.
Significance: this allowed African American's to vote with out threat or worry -
Martin Luther King Assassinated
What Happened:King was the leader of the civil rights movement and made a large impact in history. He was murdered my James Earl Ray at a hotel he was staying at.
Signifance: Like many before him King died because he was part of the civil rights movement and though much had been done it was the death of the movements leader.
