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Executive Order 9981
This was an executive order from President Truman that abolished racial descrimination in the United States Armed Forces which eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Ended legal segregation in public schools -
Emmitt Till
Emmitt Till was a 14 year old boy that went to a store to buy some candy and supposedly flirted with a 21 year old white woman in the store. Several nights later the husband and the half brother found the little boy, beat him which then killed him. -
Rosa Parks
Considered to be the first lady of civil rights.
She is known for refusing to obey the bus driver by not giving up her seat for a white passenger. This brought on the bus boycott. Due to not obeying the bus driver she was arrested. -
SCLC
The goal of this organization was to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the South. -
Little Rock Nine
This was a group of African American children that enrolled into school and were prevented from entering the racially segregated school. The governor deployed the Arkansas National Guard to enforce the prevention from the children entering the school. President Eisenhower then sent federal troops to personally escort these children into their school. -
Woolworth/Greensboro Sit-Ins
Four boys were served at Woolworth store. They purchased items for the blacks section but when moving to the segregated counter they were not served and asked to leave. Therefore the boys sat there until the store closed. The next day many more people came to join the sit in. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months after the Woolworth incident. This committee helped to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists rode buses into the segregated south to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them -
James Meredith
James Meredith was the first African-American student admitted to the University of Mississippi which was a segregated school. This brought a lot of attention to the American Civiil Rights Movements. -
Birmingham Campaign - "Bull" Firehoses on African American Protestors
During either violent or peaceful protests against segregated restaurants and businesses the people protesting would be sprayed with a high pressure firehose to try and "put a stop" to the protest and show that protesting will not be tolerated. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter that defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was in Washington, D.C.. It was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
This event was a bombing performed by white terrorists. These people put a bomb under neath the steps of the church, this bomb killed four little girls. -
24th Amendement
This amendemtn prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Poll Tax
This amendment abolished a poll tax, which had originally been instituted in eleven other states, which were southern states. -
Murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwrerner
Three American civil rights' workers, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were shot on the night of June 21–22, 1964 by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County's Sheriff Office and the Philadelphia Police Department located in Philadelphia, Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act
Outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act ended unequal application of voter registration requirements. It also abolished segregation in schools. -
Malcolm X Assissinated
African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. When he left Islam tensions grew high. When addressing Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom he was shot by one man in the front and then several other shots were fired as well. -
Bloody Sunday
This was a march that was from the east of Selma on route 80. The march ended very violently because of state and lawmen attacked them with weapons making this day called Bloody Sunday because it was so violent and cruel. -
Bloody Sunday
This was a march that was from the east of Selma on route 80. The march ended very violently because of state and lawmen attacked them with weapons making this day called Bloody Sunday because it was so violent and cruel. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Prohibits discrimination in voting. -
Executive Order 11246
Established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors. -
Black Panthers
Black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. This organization was to fight back against police brutality. -
Loving v.s. Virginia
This case happened because a white male and a black woman married each other in Columbia and after returned to Virginia where their home was and were charged for violating Virginias ban on interracial marriages. After they were charged for a years sentence they returned to Columbia. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
MLK is one of the most important American Civil Rights Movement leaders. He lead many events and gave his famous speech "I have a dream". Unfortunately he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
This act called for equal housing opportunities no matter what race, creed, or national origin and made it a federal crime to “by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone … by reason of their race, color, religion, or national origin. -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
This case was about achieving the integration of schools by allowing the busing any race. -
1992 Los Angeles Race Riots
After a high speed chase a man was some what beaten by L.A. Police Officers. This incident provoked anger in many people to retalliate against police officers. -
L.A. Race Riots
A series of riots, lootings, arsons and civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in 1992, following the acquittal of police officers on trial regarding a videotaped, and widely covered police brutality incident.
