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This supreme court case ended segregation in the classroom.The Brown ruling applied only to schools, it implied that segregation in other public facilities was unconstitutional as well. -
One of the most famous people to come out of the Civil rights movement, Rosa Parks was a key factor in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.On December 1, 1955, African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
In September 1957 nine African American students attended their first day at Little Rock Central High School, whose entire student population had until that point been white.The students were getting mobbed by The protest of black students entering this Arkansas school got so bad, President Eisenhower was forced to send in federal protection. -
The Freedom Rides began on May 4, 1961, with a group of seven African Americans and six whites, who boarded two buses bound for New Orleans. Testing the Supreme Court’s ruling on the case Boynton v. Virginia.The group was confronted by violence in South Carolina, and, on May 14, when one bus stopped to change a slashed tire, the vehicle was firebombed and the Freedom Riders were beaten. Yet, another 10 people were soon to follow these Freedom riders. -
The Mississippi Riots were an incident of mob violence by proponents of racial segregation beginning the night of September 30, 1962. Segregationist opposition to the enrollment of James Meredith, an African-American veteran, at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi became violent. -
In the spring of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the SCLC launched a campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, with local Pastor Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) to undermine the city’s system of racial segregation.The campaign began on April 3, 1963, with sit-ins, economic boycotts, mass protests, and marches on City Hall. The demonstrations faced challenges from many sides, including an indifferent African American community, adversarial white leaders. -
The demonstrations of 1963 culminated with the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28 to protest civil rights abuses and employment discrimination. A crowd of about 250,000 individuals gathered peacefully on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to listen to speeches by civil rights leaders, notably Martin Luther King, Jr. -
On July 2, 1964, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, signed the Civil Rights Act into law, a stronger version of what his predecessor, President Kennedy, had proposed the previous summer before his assassination in November 1963. Although many people think that Kennedy passed the act, it was Lyndon B. Johnson who finalized the act. -
The demonstration march from Selma to Montgomery was nicknamed "Bloody Sunday" due to the brutality and violence troops used against the peaceful demonstrators. On March 7, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr., organized a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital. On March 9 King tried again, leading more than 2,000 marchers to the Pettus Bridge, where they encountered a barricade of state troopers. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law on August 6. -
A series of violent confrontations between the city police and residents of Watts and other predominantly African American neighborhoods of Los Angeles began on August 11, 1965.The disturbance resulted in 34 deaths, more than 1,000 injuries, and $40 million in property damage. -
The assassination of Malcolm X and urban uprisings, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, to protect African American neighborhoods from police brutality. The programs confronted the economic problems of African Americans, which the Party argued that the civil rights reforms did not do enough to address. -
On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Virginia statutes prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional in the case Loving v. Virginia. The case was decided nine years after Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a woman of mixed African American and Native American ancestry, had pleaded guilty to having violated Virginia state law prohibiting a white person and a “colored” person from leaving the state to be married and returning to live as man and wife. -
A series of violent confrontations between residents of predominantly African American neighborhoods and city police in Detroit began on July 23, 1967. After a raid at an illegal drinking club where police arrested everyone inside.The violence spread to other parts of the city and resulted in 43 deaths, hundreds of injuries, more than 7,000 arrests, and 1,000 burned buildings. -
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed by a sniper while standing on the second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His murder set off riots in hundreds of cities across the country, and it also pushed Congress to pass the stalled Fair Housing Act in King’s honor on April 11. -
The movement began in July 2013, with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin 17 months earlier in February 2012 -
2014 deaths of two African Americans, that of Michael Brown resulting in protests and unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, a city near St. Louis and Eric Garner in New York City. Since the Ferguson protests, participants in the movement have demonstrated against the deaths of numerous other African Americans by police actions or while in police custody. In the summer of 2015, Black Lives Matter activists became involved in the 2016 United States presidential election. -
The death of Walter Scott, shot in the back by a white police officer, sparked protests in North Charleston, where BLM protesters called for justice and an end to police discrimination. There were also protests after the deaths of Freddie Gray, who died in police custody, and mother Meagan Hockaday, who was fatally shot at home. -
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year old African American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment on March 13, 2020. White officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove of the Louisville Metro Police Department forced entry into the apartment as part of an investigation into drug dealing operations. The shot hit Mattingly in the leg, and the officers fired 32 shots in return. Walker was unhurt but Taylor, who was behind Walker, was hit by six bullets and died. -
The George Floyd protests are an ongoing series of protests and civil unrest against police brutality and racism that began in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 26, 2020 and largely took place during 2020. Violence by early June 2020 had resulted in two deaths, 604 arrests, an estimated $550 million in property damage to 1,500 locations.This major event took places in many cities, and also countries around the world. The black lives matter movement is still on going today.