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"Sit- Ins"
In Chicago, the congress of Racial equality had staged the first sit ins, which african american protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served -
Boycotting Segregation
Robinson wrote a letter to mayor Montgomery, Alabama, asking that bus drivers no longer be allowed to force riders in "colored" section to yield their seats to whites. -
Brown V. Board Of Education
Board of education denys eight year old Linda Brown's rights by denying her admission to an all white elementary 4 blocks from her house -
Brown II
Ordered that school desegregation implemented "with all deliberate speed." -
Rosa Parks
She was the one who refused to move to the back of the bus for a white person who entered the bus. She was arrested and news of her arrest spread rapidly -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
It's purpose was to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second- class citizenship." -
Civil Rights Act
Congress passed this law, this law gave attorney general greater power over school desegregation. It also gave the federal gov jurisdiction or authority over violations of African American voting rights -
Another "Sit- In"
African Am. students from NC's Agricultural and Technical college staged a sit in at whites only lunch counter at a woolworth's store in Greensboro. This time, television crews brought coverage of the protest. -
Equal Treatment
For the rest of the 1960's, many Americans worked to convince the rest of the country that blacks and whites deserved equal treatment. Even though it endured a lot of arrests, beatings, suspension from college, and tear gas and fire hoses. -
Ella Baker
Baker had helped students at Shaw University an African American University in NC to organize a national protest group, the "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee."
