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Plessy vs Ferguson
Plessy vs Ferguson made things to where the whites places were not superior over the African Americans. "Separate pl but equal" -
Brown vs Board of Education
In the Brown vs Board of Education trial, they struck down segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was an African American little boy that was caught offending a white woman while at a grocery store. That night, the white woman's husband and brother came to get Emmett. They ended up brutally murdering him and got off without charges. -
Rosa Parks Takes a Seat
Rosa Parks took a seat in the front row of the "colored" section of the Montgomery Bus. As the bus was filling up, the driver asked her and 3 other African Americans to move so a white man could sit down without having to sit by any person of color. Rosa Parks refused and ended up in jail.
"It was time for someone to stand up-or in my case, sit down." -
The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education. On the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students’ entry into the high school. Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. In order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan vs Virginia and Boynton vs Virginia, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. -
President John F. Kennedy Assassination
JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president by default
After JFK was assassinated, LBJ stepped up and took position of President. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this act which prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. It gave all citizens the right to enter libraries, parks, "washrooms" (now known as bathrooms), restaurants, and other public accommodations. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Death
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968. On April 3, 1968, MLK Jr. addressed a crowd in Memphis. He said, "I may not get to be here with you but... we as people will get to the promised land." On the very next day, he stood on his hotel balcony and James Earl Ray thrusted a high-powered rifle out of a window and squeezed the trigger.
