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Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of Education was a challenge to education ruling that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Even after Brown v. Board of education sharing a row with a white passenger on the bus was not allowed. Rosa parks one day refused to give up her seat for a white passenger and was immediately arrested. This response convinced community leader to continue the bus boycott. -
Birth of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Representatives from Montgomery Improvement Association and several other groups met in Atlanta. This was to organize protest and activities all over the region. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students were waiting to attend Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. A mob of whites were determined not to let them enter. Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to the school. After President Eisenhower heard the news he sent federal troops to end the stand off. -
Greensboro Sit-in
Four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina began a sit in movement after being denied service at a Woolworth’s store. The next day they came in with many more representatives and soon gained hundreds of supporters. Soon many other southern cities began to use the sit in tactic and it became successful in making store owners change policies. -
Freedom Riders
The Supreme court ordered that facilities in bus stations serving interstate travelers be open to all passengers, regardless of race. Court’s order was not enforced. The CORE sent groups of freedom riders to go to whites only waiting rooms and try to use facilities such as restrooms and lunch counters. -
Albany Movement
More than 500 protesters been jailed. Martin Luther King Jr. led more demonstrations called the Albany Movement. Martin Luther King Jr was arrested for leading a march on city hall. King refused to pay the fine and was jailed. King was soon let out on bail anonymously. -
Birmingham Campaign
Martin Luther King Jr. focused his efforts on Birmingham. Harry Belafonte helped King raise hundreds and thousands of dollars to fund a campaign against Birmingham segregation laws. With sit in and Marches, demonstrators were consistently arrested. April 12th 1963 King and hundreds more were jailed. White clergy talked about King’s efforts in the news paper. King rejected the post with a response named, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. With many arrest and demonstrators losing jobs King began urgi -
Death of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was an NAACP leader who was murdered by a Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith and was set free because the jury could not reach a verdict. Eventually in the 1990’s Beckwith was tried again and this times sentenced to death. -
March on Washington
March on Washington was formed by the SNCC, an organized demonstration at the nation’s capital had 200,000 people attend the demonstration where Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. -
24th Amendment
This amendment banned states from taxing citizens to vote. This was to keep minorities from voting. -
Freedom Summer
A call went out for college students wanting to spend their summer in Mississippi registering African Americans to vote. Hundreds of volunteers gathered at Ohio college. -
Mississippi Crisis
The first 200 volunteers of the freedom summer arrived in Mississippi on June 20th, 1964. The next day one went missing. Next several other s went missing without a trace such as, James Chaney and Michael Schumner. -
Civil Rights Act
Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act which banned discrimination in employment and in public accommodations. Following the Birmingham church bomb which killed 4 young girls a month before the act was signed.
