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Niagara Movement (1905)
-A black civil rights movement led by the W.E.B Du Bois. It attempted to promote legal change economics, crime, religion, education, and health.
-2,000 African Americans killed, this is what got the NAACP’s word out. Picture Description:
Compromising speech, black and white sit down at the
Equality table in front of Lincoln’s picture because he
Wanted equality. -
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
-In 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt applied for admission to the University of Texas School of Law, which was an all-white institution. -Sweatt met all the needed requirements for the admission, because of his race, he wouldn't be accepted.
-As a result, the university attempted to provide separate but equal facilities for black law students. Picture Description:
This picture shows that even having one colored person in the all-white school would not be okay, thus having a crowd against it -
Brown v. Board Of Education (1954)
-Separate but equal educational schools for racial minorities are naturally unequal violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
-This case was the concentration of the four cases arising in separate states relating to the segregation of public schools on the basis of race. Picture Description:
I chose this picture because it shows a white and an African American girl which is both very rare (different colors and girls in a classroom). -
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
-When African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. From December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956. Picture Description:
This picture shows that when Blacks rode buses, they were expected to sit in the back away from everyone else. And they were also expected to give up their seats for any white person. -
Little Rock Nine (1957)
-A group of 9 African American students that took attendance at the Brown v. Board of Education.
-Ruling that declared segregation in public schools un-American.
-Their enrollment was followed by the Little RockCrisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. Picture Description:
These are the children that fought for their education and actually cared. -
Woolworth’s Sit- In (1960)
African American college students sat at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, & politely asked for service. Their request was refused & asked to go, they stayed in their seats. Their resistance & sit-down helped start a youth-led movement to defy racial bias through the South Picture Description:
These groups became the ground of future sit-ins at public all white places. By sitting in protest, four college students sparked national interest for civil rights. -
Freedom Ride (1961)
When seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations. Student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals. Picture Description:
This is what they fought for and what the riders stood for: the equality on bus. -
March on Washington (1963)
The March on Washington was for jobs and freedom. The highlight of the march, which attracted 250,000 people, was Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech Picture Description:
This not only represents the blacks and the actual mark, but the symbolism behind the binding together of their arms. No one can make them back down, and they didn't. -
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
-When he was twenty-one, he was sentenced to prison for burglary and there encountered the Black Muslims. Muhammad's belief was the white man is the devil. Picture Description:
This picture not only shows him and his strong Demeter, but also
the quote that you must stand up, if not you are nothing to fall for. -
Bloody Sunday- March from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL (1965)
-"Bloody Sunday," 600 civil rights marchers headed to Selma. They got stopped six blocks away from where state & local lawmen attacked them with clubs & tear gas to drive them back to Selma. Picture Discription:
There were thousands of pictures of one another fighting with each other, but this photo shows the depression and the realism that people died just because we couldn’t agree on a skin color -
Voting Rights Acts (1965)
-These acts were aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment. These acts outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. Picture Description:
Seeing blacks and whites in the same room together smiling is very rare at this time, this goes to show that this act set off the blacks and the future diversity of U.S -
Black Panthers (1966)
-The Black Panther Party was a political organization for Self-Defense, African American revolutionary party, founded in Oakland, California. Their original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. Picture Description:
This picture not only shows them and the crew, but the strength you see just within a photo. You already feel empowered and safe once you see this picture because there is no fear on their face whatsoever
