-
Board Of Education Ruling went down in 1954 and it ended in 1954 as well. This was made so that the African American students couldn't come to a Caucasian school. When they tried they were stopped instantly. During this, was the little rock nine. On the way to school, they were stopped by a white mob. The white mob was screaming saying "Don't let them in". The student segregation was still in session. -
The death of Emmett Till happened on August 28th. Emmett Till was murdered by two Caucasian men for "Flirting" with a woman named Carolyn Bryant. Carolyn was working at the counter and she had seen Emmett come in and accused him of cat calling her. After he got what he wanted from the store, she heard him say "Bye baby" which he never said anything like that. Emmett was only a 14 year old boy who was innocent. Emmett was brutally murdered by having one eye gauged out and being shot by a .45 cal. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest that happened on December 5th, 1955 and ended December 20th, 1956. It protested segregated seating. A few days before this had happened, Rosa Parks had been arrested and fined for not giving up her bus seat to a white male. In 1955, the African Americans were being forced to sit in the back half of the bus. -
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine first ever African American teenagers to enter Little Rock's Central High School. September 2, 1957, the night prior to that was supposed to be their first day in Central High, but the states national guard had to block their entrance due to the Arkansas governor Orval Faubus. Orval claims that it was for the safety of the nine students. -
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights is celebrating its 70th birthday with a ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The group was founded by leaders from the NAACP, the NAACP and the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council to promote civil rights. -
The Greensboro Sit-In was a civil rights protest that happened in 1960. During this African American people would go into restaurants and sit down to eat. They would go to Woolworth's lunch counter which was segregated, and they refused to leave. This all happened in Greensboro NC. -
The march on Washington was a protest that had happened because George Wallace stops two black students from entering the University of Alabama. After that the U.S. President, JFK sends troops to escort the African American students into the school. -
King penned the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on the margins of the Birmingham News. His request to call his wife Coretta Scott King, who was at home in Atlanta recovering from the birth of their fourth child, was denied. After she communicated her concern to the Kennedy administration, Birmingham officials permitted King to call home. -
This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
Mississippi Summer Project was a voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 mostly white volunteers joined African Americans in Mississippi to fight against voter intimidation and discrimination. Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, took place between June 1964 and August 1967. -
In 1954, the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision led to the desegregation of public schools in the United States. One example was the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, system, in which black students attended schools that were either totally black or more than 99 percent black. -
She represented New York's 12th congressional district, centered on Bedford–Stuyvesant, for seven terms. Shirley was the first ever woman to campaign towards the democratic party. -
Hank Aaron was an African American baseball player, he played for the Atlanta Braves. Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run off of the Dodgers Al Downing. When he hit this home run, he broke the record that Babe Ruth had set back in 1927. -
On July 12, 1976, Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. Jordan called for Americans to commit themselves to a "national community" and the "common good". A decade earlier, such a thing would have been almost impossible even a decade earlier. -
Allan Bakke's application for admission to the University of California Medical School was rejected twice. Bakke contended that he was excluded from admission solely on the basis of race. His qualifications exceeded those of any of the minority students admitted in the two years his applications were rejected.