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Jim Crow Laws
These laws kept African and white americans from being in the same places and using the same facilities.The laws were not adopted in the northern states but rather down south where major racism still existed. -
World War II and Civil Rights
Before World War II nobody really had a great job but after World War II a lot of whites got the better paying jobs while leaving the Colored with the bad paying jobs even if there were open better paying jobs. -
Brown V. Board of Education
This particular event took place in 1952 where a young girl wanted to go to a school close to her home but could not do so because it was an all white school and the girl was african american. Long story short the ruling was that the girl would be escorted to and from school but she was indeed allowed to got there now. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks an iconic leader in civil rights due to the bus incident she had. Rosa parks refused to get up for a white person and was arrested, which started a protest for African americans to not ride buses for over a year. As a young history teacher once said "Rosa Parks is the one that sparked it." -
Emmett Till's Murder
Emmett was visiting family in mississippi when the boy was dared to go in and talk to a white women in a store the women yelled at Emmett and stated he flirted with her. That night Emmett was brutally murdered by the woman's husband and brother. Emmett's mother wanted an open casket to show the world what these men did to her baby boy no matter how gruesome it was. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The boycott was started due to Rosa Parks being thrown off a bus for refusing to move from her seat, so in return African Americans of Alabama refused to ride the buses. MLK waa the leader of the boycott and encouraged African Americans to stay off the buses. The boycott lasted 381 days in order to show whites that African Americans would stand up for themselves and each other alike. -
College Sit-ins
The sit-ins were protests against segregation mostly by college students mainly African American but some white. The protests usually lasted hours or until the police showed and beat them then took them to jail. During these sit-ins these students would get food dumped on them and screamed at spit on anything imaginable and all for equal rights. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom riders were groups who rode through the south on buses and protested segregated bus terminals. The group was of mixed races. Police would meet the riders and arrest them as they got off the bus, and the riders would get out and do it all over it again because it was a cause that they believed in. -
March on Washington
Over 250,000 people gathered in Washington, DC and marched for equality of African Americans. This was were MLK gave his famous "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. -
MLK Assassination
MLK was killed in Memphis Tennessee after being fatally shot by a sniper in the neck. Martin was then rushed to a nearby hospital where he pronounced dead and the world lost a great leader and mentor especially for many African Americans during this time period.
