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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Founded
Congress of Racial Equality was a group of African Americans that started a Civil Rights Organization. The CORE was founded in Chicago by a group of Students. The Core was made to stop violent acts and was the start of a change. -
Dodgers Hire Jackie Robinson
Dodgers hiring of Jackie Robinson, helped him cross the color line and helped desegregate the sports leagues. He was the first black person in a sports association. -
Executive Order 9981
Executive Order 9981 was the order declaring that minorities were to not be segregated against and were to be treated equally. With this, desegregation became an official order in the armed forces. -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Black Nationalism is a black rights organization formed by the National Islam. One of these advocates was Malcom X who advocated the rights of black people. -
Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
Brown v. Board of Education was the supreme court with Thurgood Marshall as a black court justice, that determined segregation in schools was unconstitutional. It was also a class-action lawsuit which is a civilian enacted court case. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a period of time where no black citizens rode public buses. It was began when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus. A boycott is a civil protest with no purposeful injury or harm. -
Integration of Central High School
Little rock nine were the first nine black students to integrate into a white school. Little Rock nine students were not welcomed into their new school. The students were escorted by troops into the school. -
First Lunch Counter Sit-In
Four African American students went to a lunch counter and stood up for themselves. The waiter refused to serve them so they sat there until the counter closed. They were called sit- ins because they just sat there as a way of rebellion. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Rides were public bus rides to the south that were supported by the CORE. On one trip, the bus was attacked and fire bombs were thrown onto it. After this, the CORE stopped supporting them, but the SNCC began to support them to stop this. -
Birmingham Campaign: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King had been put in jail and wrote a letter expressing that the black people were using these riots and protests as a way to have their own words. 50 people including MLK and several SCLC members, were arrested and taken to jail. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was when more than 250,000 people demonstrated in Washington in favor of desegregating jobs and getting freedom. The NAACP was an organization to help desegregation legislation, which was another thing that the people were marching for. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights act of 1964 was an act that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin. Plessy v Ferguson was the Court Case that decided that people could be separate as long as they were equal. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act outlawed literacy tests for voting. This made it illegal to disenfranchise people and to use any tactics to keep African American people from voting. -
Watts Riot
Watts Riot was a six day long riot that was began because of police brutality, and other discrimination. This took place in the Watt gheto. The Kerner Commission was also what specifically said that white racism had lead to the Watts Riot. -
Black Panther Party Founded
The Black Panther Party was an organization that wanted rights given back to the black people, but were willing to take violent action in order to do so. It got its name because the Black Panther was a vicious animal and wasn't afraid to be violent, the same as this group. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
This act was a law that included a ban on discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, or sex. This also gave power to the government to file a lawsuit against anyone who continued to discriminate in this way. -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
This Case made it acceptable to make busing an appropriate way for school integration. This was one major school desegregation method -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
This was the supreme court ruling the barely up held that race may be a criteria for school but not the main criterion. Some schools wanted affirmative action which was when they purposefully integrate some minorities to make the organization look diverse.
