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Plessey V. Ferguson
Homer Plessey sits on a bus, in one of the white seats
He is 7/8 black and 1/8 white
He doesn't move from his seat
He is arrested -
Disfranchising Blacks
The Southern states pass the law to disfranchise blacks -
Segregation Banned
US Supreme Court bans segregation of black and white people in public transit. -
Brown V. Board
The case of Oliver Brown V. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas-
They unanimously agreed that the segregation of blacks, in schools, was unconstitutional. The decision overturns the 1896 case of Plessey V. Ferguson -
Meet Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks meet -
Emmet Till
A fourteen year old boy named, Emmet Till was visiting family in Mississippi, when he was kidnapped, shot and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whisteling at a white woman -
It all stared with Rosa Parks
The Montgomery Bus Boycott all started with Rosa parks
She got on a bus and sat near the front because ther was no room in the back where the blacks "belonged"
She was told to move
She said no
She was arrested
And that is the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott Happens
The first day of the Boyccott begins and all the blacks stay off the bus
The bus divers stop at black bus stops but they don't get on because they are revolting by not getting onto the bus
They want equality -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott from beginning to end -
Reindicted for Boycotting
In February a group of white attourneys came together and brought up an old law saying that boycotts were not legal -
Are paratroopers necessary?
Nine black students integrate with white students at a High School
President Dwight D. Isenhower send in paratroopers to ward off any violence -
First to Enroll at The MississippiUniversity
James Merideth becomes the first balck student to enroll at The Mississippi Univerity
Riots begin and other trouble starts, A lot of people are not happy with this. -
Arrested
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested during anti- segregation protests, this is when he writes the "Letter from Bimingham Jail" -
"I Have a Dream"
Martin Luther King Jr. Gives his "I Have a Dream" speach
More than 250,000 civil rights demonstratiors march to see and hear his speach -
Nobel Peace Prize
Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize -
Matin Luther King Jr's death
Martin Luther King Jr. Is assasinated in Memphis, TN. -
First Black female Mayor
Unita Blackwell is elected the first black, female Mayor in history. -
Present time
Shelby County V. Holder
The Supreme Court struck down section 4 of the Voting Rights act
