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Plessy vs Ferguson
April 13, 1896 Homer A. Plessy v. Ferguson was argued in the Supreme Court of the United States. Plessy attempted to sit in an all-white railroad car. After refusing to sit in the black railway carriage car, Plessy was arrested for violating an 1890 Louisiana statute that provided for segregated “separate but equal”. -
1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
Local bus boycott for over one year. The blacks wanted to be able to sit where ever they wanted to on the bus and be teated equal. On december 1965 the suprem court ruled Alabama's segregation on buses unconsitiutional. -
Crisis in Little Rock
Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School. Central High was an all white school.October 1957, Eisenhower sent in fedral trrops to support desegregation. -
Sit-in-movement
On February 1, 1960, a new tactic was added to the peaceful activists' strategy. Four African American college students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter at the local WOOLWORTH'S store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for coffee. When service was refused, the students sat patiently. Despite threats and intimidation, the students sat quietly and waited to be served. -
I have a dream speech
an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
