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Alexandria, Virgina Sit In
Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized a sit in at a segregated library in Alexandria Virgina. This was the start of many future sit ins, which the Congress of Racial Equality in Chicago, St. Louis and Balitomre. -
Executive Order 9981
President Truman signed Executive Order 9981 abolishing discrimination, and ultimately segregation, in the US Military. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of Education was a pivotal moment in US Supreme Court history. The case ruled state laws forcing blacks and whites to go to different schols unconstitutional. -
Emmit Till
Emmit Till was a young innocent African American boy from Chicago. He was murdered for "flirting" with Carline Bryant (a white women). Days later Roy, Carolines husband, and J.W. Wilam showed up at Emmits graeat uncles house, where Emmit was staying at the moment, and proceeded to brutally murder him. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was an activist in the persuit of equal rights for African-Americans. She is most remembered for her refusal to follow the segregated bus laws in Montgomery, Alabama, and her following arrest. -
SCLC Founded
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was African American civil rights organization that was very close to MLK, their first president. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock 9 were the very first black students enrolled into Little Rock Highschool. Govner Ovall Faubus ordered the National Guard to blockade the school and not let the African students in. The President then sent the 101st Airbourne Division to escort the students to school and gave each student their own body guard. -
A&T 4
4 African American men from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University had visted the Woolworth store to buy some goods fromt eh non segregated counter. They then proceeded to the lunch counter and were refused service because they were usingthe "whites only" counter. They then proceeded to stay at the store until closing. -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Cordinating Commitee was an organization founded during the Civil Rights movement. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. SNCC grew into a large organization with many supporters in the North -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders were students from CORE who rode on buses from Washington DC to Jacksonville Missippii. Their bus rides stood for freedom and desegregation but instead only ran into violent oppositions. -
Loving vs. Virginia
The Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, ruled that anti miscegenation laws were no longer legal. This was a huge milestone in the civil rights movement, allowing for two people of different races to marry. -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
This is a letter that the one and only MLK had written form the Birmingham Jail. The letter defended the non-violent protests to discrimination and became a key text for the American Civil Rights movement. It was also known as the “The Negro Is Your Brother Letter”. -
“Bull” Connor uses fire hoses on black demonstrators
Eugene “Bull” Connor, after determining the Birmingham jails were full enacted new, and more violent, tactics. Fire hoses set to extremely high pressures were shot at protesters, some of which were students. Life magazine captured images of the violent retaliation and published them, giving the civil rights movement national and international support. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was one, if not, the largest march for human rights in history. The marhers were calling for equal economics and civil rights for blacks thorughout the United States. It is also where MLK delivered his "I have a dream" speech. -
I Have A Dream Speech
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the Nation’s capitol, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most recognizable speeches of all time. The speech presented the audience with MLK’s dream; that one day his children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by their race or ethnicity. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Four girls were killed by a bomb at the 16th street baptist church in Birmingham Alabama. This ruthless and merciless act was an act of white supremacy. -
24th Amendment
The 24th amendment abolished polling taxes allowing for low-paid minorities to participate in the democratic process. -
Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
Three American civil rights' workers, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, were shot at close range on the night of June 21–22, 1964 by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff Office and the Philadelphia Police Department located in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The three had been working on the "Freedom Summer" campaign, attempting to register African Americans to vote. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
This act ended voter discrimination as well as racial, religious, ethnic, and discrimination against women. -
Civil Rights Act 1965
The Civil Rights Act of 1965 made it illegal to discriminate voting rights. Congress later amended it 5 more times to expand the right to vote that is promised by the 14th amendment. -
Malcolm X Assassinated
Civil rights leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City. His killers were members of the Nation of Islam, all were convicted. -
Los Angeles Race Riots 1965
Riots took place in Watts neighborhood. The six day unrest resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. -
Excecutive Order 11246
This Order was enacted by President LBJ and states that federal contactors and subcontractors cannot be used to discriminate on basis of race, religion, color, sex or national origin. -
Black Panthers Founded
Founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, they achieved national and international notoriety through their involvement in Black Power movement and US politics of 1960 and 1970. -
MLK Assassination
MLK was assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in memphis Tennessee at the age of 39. MLK was pronounced dead at 705 at St Joseph's Hospital. On June 8th 1968 James Earl Ray was extradited to the US for the murder of MLK. -
Civil Rights Act 1968
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was a law that was put into to place after the King assassination by President LBJ. The law stated that it was illegal to intimidate, injure, interfere, with anyone with force due to race or origin. This created equal housing opportunities. -
Voting Rights Act
This act was passed due to a series of cases the Supreme Court took on about people sueing their employers for discrimnation. Their decisions made it illegal for them to vote. After this act was pased it made it legal to have a trial by jury for discrimination cases. -
Los Angeles Race Riots
The LA race riots were the largest riots in the US since the ones in 1960 and the worst ones in death tolls since 1983 in New York. The riots started when police offers were aquitted of a court case over a video taped police brutality incident.
