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White schools denied access to African Americans. The NAACP filed a class action lawsuit in 5 different states to challenge those white schools. The NAACP argued that it was unconstitutional for them to deny them. The Supreme Court ruling overturned Plessy V Ferguson 9-0. -
Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy from Chicago, Illinois working in Mississippi. He whistled at a white lady at a store and the lady told her husband. The husband and other white men then kidnapped Emmett and tortured, killed, and dumped him in a river. -
Rosa parks was a black woman who refused to stand up for a white personal to sit on the bus. She was put in jails and this started a black boycott from riding the bus in Montgomery. Her life after this was difficult and she received many death threats. -
The Sclc was an organization linked to the black churches. 60 black ministers were pivotal in organizing civil rights activism. Martin Luther king jr. was elected the president. They focused its non violent strategy on citizenship, schools and efforts to desegregate individual cities. It played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery in 1965. -
The Little Rock 9 were nine teenagers who were the first black student to attend Little Rock’s central high school. They were met by angry mobs and the national guard blocking their entrance before finally being able to enter the school. They were harassed and threatened by white students at their school. -
The Greensboro sit in was a civil rights movement where African American students sat at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro. The students were doing a nonviolent protest and were refused service. The students were arrested but they also inspired other people to do it. -
Ruby bridges was one of 4 six year olds who took a test and passed it so she could go to a white school. -
The freedom riders were African American and white civil rights activists who took buses to town in the south and protest segregation. The buses were attacked by angry mobs and the people were beaten and harassed. Many people were injured and hospitalized and this gained attention for the civil rights movement. -
March on Washington was a protest where 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. They gathered in front of the Lincoln memorial to advocate for the Civil rights movement. This is when Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The act ended segregation and banned discrimination based on color ,religion ,race ,sex or national origin. The signing of the act took place in Washington D.C. with Martin Luther King present. -
Malcom Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to prison for six year for burglary. He converted to Islam and joined the Nation of Islam but later left. He was assassinated during a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this into effect.
The act banned poll tax and literacy tests before voting. It also made voting a federal right rather than a state right. -
MLKJ was shot in the Memphis Tennessee Loraine Motel by a sniper's bullet. MLKJ was assassinated by James Earl Ray. His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans.