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Plessy V. Ferguson
Court case where the Surpreme Cout ruled the "serparate out equal" facilities were constitutional. -
Founding of NAACP
W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Adams and other reformers formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Blacks and whites both worked for equal rights for African Americans.m -
Jackie robinson integrates baseball
The general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers wanted to break the "color line" and start to have African Americans play too. He started Jackie Robinson at first base. Robinson ended racial segregation on the ball field. -
Military Integration
Harry Truman ordered integration of all units of the armed forces, or military. African Americans and white soldiers fought together during the Korean War. -
The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was 14 years old when he was brutally murdered for flirting with a white girl. The womens husband and brother nearly beat him to death, shot him in the head and threw his body into a river. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks got arrested for sitting in the 'colored seats" and as the seats filled up, the driver demanded she give her seat to a white man and refusing. After her arrest got out, many African Americans boycotted the buses. -
Little Rock Nine
A group of nine African American students attended Central Highschool as a plan to desegregate the schools. -
Greensboro Sit-In
Four African American students sat down at a whites only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and ordered coffee. They then refused to move until the were served their orders. -
Freedom RIdes
Thirteen Freedom Riders went out on two buses to travel down through the Deep South. They successfully intergrated several buses before being attacked in Alabama. -
Birmingham Children's March
Thousands of African Americans, inckuding children, marched peacefully in Birmingham. The police violently used electircal cattle prods, dogs and even fire hoses against the marchers. -
March on Washington
250,000 Americans peacefully assembled to support civil rights. The civil rights leaders proposed a march to focus attention on the civil rights bill. -
Civil RIghts Act of 1964
Congress passed the act that banned segregation and didcrimination on publis facilities and outlawed discrimiation in employment. -
Malcolm X Assassination
Military leader Malcom X rejected the thought of integration. He wanted to have African American and whites to be totally separated in society. Before he could develop his ideas, he was shot to death. -
Selma March
A group of hundreds of people set out to march to call attention to voting rights. They came from Selma to the city of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Watts Riot
A group of people were angry with police brutality so the residents of Watts, LA burned cars and stole from stores. More than 1,000 people were injured or killed. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passed the act that banned literacy tests and other barriers to African American voting. -
Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka
Court declared state lawsestablishing public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Oliver Brown sued the board of education in Topeka, Kansas. Browns daughter had to travel great distances just to go to school. She attended a school for African Americans. He brought it up with the Surpreme Court and it ended segregation in schools.
