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Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate out equal" facilities were constitutional.
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Du Bois joined Jane Addams and other reformers in forming the NAACP. Blacks & whites were fighting for equal rights for African-Americans
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Jackie Robinson was signed to play baseball.
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President Truman was committed to civil rights. So, in 1948, he ordered the integration of all units of the armed forces. As a result, African-Amercans and white soldiers fought side by side.
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The United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Court’s unanimous decision overturned provisions of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
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He was a black student in Mississippi who was hurt and later murdered for giving the look to a white girl.
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Rosa Parks in Montogomery,Alabama sat in the colored section of the bus. The bus was getting full and the bus driver asked Parks to give up her seat. She refusedto and was arrested.
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The Little Rock school board made a plan of no segregation. Nine African-Americans were to attend Central High School with a national guard to avoid the angry student mob.
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Four African-American students sat down at a "whites" only counter and ordered coffee in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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This was a group of African-Americans and white people who's goal was to test a recent Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in Interstate travel.
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In, Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African-American children were peacefully protesting through Birmingham. Police used every dangerous against them. Americans were horrified by this.
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After Birmingham, Kennedy sent Congress a strong bill. To focus attention to this, civil right leaders had a march with 250,000 citizens.
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Pushed hard by Johnson, It banned discrimanation in public facilities and employment.
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Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City.
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King staged a mass protest from Selma to Montgomery, the state captial to bring out the issue of voting rights. Hundreds of people followed him. But, police where there trying to stop it. It was a mess and Americans saw it all on the news.
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After the Selma March, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It banned literacy tests and other barriers to African-American voting.
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The Watts Riot, which raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage. The riot spurred from an incident when Marquette Frye was pulled over and arrested by Lee W. Minikus, a white California Highway Patrolman, for suspicion of driving while intoxicated.
