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In 1952, there was a split between blacks and whites at school. People wanted it to be equal and have them get their education together, so it was fair to the blacks and whites. -
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American youth, who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. -
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
SCLC was an organization linked to the black churches. Regarded churches as pivitoal organizing spaces for civil rights activism. The ministers of SCLC chose Martin Luther king as president. This group led and organized the civil rights movement. -
On September 25, 1957, under federal troop escort, the Little Rock Nine made it inside for their first full day of school. The 101st Airborne left in October and the federalized Arkansas National Guard troops remained throughout the year. The Little Rock Nine had assigned guards to walk them from class to class. -
On February 1, 1960, the four students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth's in downtown Greensboro, where the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites. Denied service, the four young men refused to give up their seats. -
One of 4, 6 year old black children pass a hard test to go to a white school, she was escorted by federal marshals, to be the only student taught by one teacher. -
Freedom riders were civil right activist who would ride interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961. Who: 431 individuals on
60 Separate rides Groups CORE, SNCC, NAACP, Nashville Student movement. -
Peaceful and respectful protest for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther king gave his I have a dream speech. It was the last speech of the day. -
Enabled the federal government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation based on race, color, religion or national origin in private business and public facilities. Who: MLK LBJ -
Malcolm X was killed in 1965 when three armed men shot him 21 times as he was preparing to speak in New York. The lawsuit alleges that a “corrupt, unlawful and unconstitutional” relationship between law enforcement and the “ruthless killers” allowed for the murder. -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.