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Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka
Chief Justice wrote an opinion for unanimous supreme court that reverse the Plessy decision's "separarte but equal" doctrine for public schools. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till is a balck boy from chicago and he was killed because he said "bye baby" to a white women working at Bryant's Grocery and meat market. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, an African American women got arrested for not giving up her seat to a white person that led to the bus boycott. -
Southern Cristian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The SCLC compromised chruches and clergy from across the south and was created to coordinate protest inspired by the success of the bus boycott. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students were arranged to be driven in two police cars to Central High School. They were once again not allowed to enter the school and were returned home safely. -
Greensboro Sit-in
Four african-american college students from North Carolina to get served in an all white restaurant at Woolworths. They didn't leave the store until it closed. -
Freedom Riders
Seven blacks and six whites left Washington DC. on two public buses bound for the deep south. They intended to test the supreme court's ruling in Boynton V. Virginia, which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations. -
Birmingham, Alabama
A series of protest marches and strikes by Bbirmingham's African Americans against segregated facilities in downtown department stores and against employment dicrimination. -
Medgar Evers
He was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. He was assassinated on this day at the age of 38 in front of his house in Jackson. -
March in Washington
It was an interracial march by 250,000 blacks and white in Washington D.C protesting segregation and job discrimination against blacks in the nation. -
Freedom Summer
Hundreds of Northern College students traveled to Mississippi to help register black voters and encourage participation in the Civil Rights movement. -
Civil Rights Act
It was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national, and religious minorities, and women. -
Voting Righst Act of 1965
A landmark piece of national legislation in the United states that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African-Americans in the U.S. -
Black Panthers Party
Martin Luther King AssassinationIn Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seal founded the black panther party for self defense. The panthers practiced militant self defense of minority communities against the US government. -
Martin Luther King Assassination
Martin Luther was killed by a single shot which struck his face and neck. He was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee.
