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Plessy v Ferguson
Back in this time passengers of all color were allowed to use the transportation but it was required for everyone to be seperated. This case all started because in 1892 African american train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car which broke a Louisiana law. (http://bit.ly/2fXLV3J) -
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Jackie Robinson
Born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, Jackie Robinson became the first black athlete to play Major League Baseball in the 20th century. He signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, and throughout his decade-long career, Robinson distinguished himself as a talented player and a vocal civil rights activist. In 1957 he retired and in 1972 he died. (http://bit.ly/18CpFY5) -
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Medgar Evers
Became a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Evers worked to gain admission for African Americans to the state supported public University of Mississippi. (http://bit.ly/2iQuaXC) -
James Meredith
He became the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans. (http://bit.ly/2o5BPmZ) -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality fights for the rights and privileges of minorities and was founded in 1942 by a group of students on the campus of the University of Chicago. In 1968 CORE became the first Black Organization in U.S. History to draft a bill that was introduced into Congress. (http://bit.ly/2p9Olja) -
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Sweatt v Painter
In 1946, a African American man named Heman Sweatt applied to go to the University of Texas Law School but the State law restricted whites from going to the school so his application was automatically rejected because of his race. In the end the Equal Protection Clause required he be admitted to the university. (http://bit.ly/2nLw2jk) -
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Brown v Board of Education
This case is now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century. This case held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated Fourteenth Amendment. In the early 1950s, NAACP lawyers brought class action lawsuits on behalf of black schoolchildren and their families in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, seeking court orders to compel school districts to let black students attend white public schools. (http://bit.ly/2nSOcjM) -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama in order to protest segregated seating. Their refusal now goes down as the first large scale demonstration in the United States. (http://bit.ly/RerZvh) -
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Black Panthers
A revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization which was founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. This group was aself defense and African American revolutionary party. (http://bit.ly/2keqUUA) -
Little Rock- Central High School
Nine brave Arkansas teenagers broke through racial barriers and became the first black students to attend Little Rock High School. US Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. (http://bit.ly/2nHFIie) -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
This is a African American civil rights organization that was founded by Martin Luther King Jr. It got it's name from it's first convention which was held in Montgomery. SCLC is now a nation wide organization. (http://bit.ly/2roGbHY) -
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
This committee was formed in order to give younger African Americans more of a voice in the civil rights movement. The Southern Leadership Conference helped set up this committee because they felt like they were out of reach with children. (http://bit.ly/2rkBiOa) -
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Greensboro Sit In
February 1st, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter in Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. They polity asked for service but they ended up being quickly denied and when they were asked to leave they remained seated. (http://s.si.edu/1jLno02) -
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Freedom Riders
A group of 13 African American and white civil activists launched the Freedom Rides. These were a series of bus trips through the South segregation in interstate buses. (http://bit.ly/1LiS17v) -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
This was an open letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. One of his famous quotes in the letter was "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" (http://bit.ly/1PzYoIh) -
March on Washington
On the 28 of Mach more than 200,000 Americans gathered together in Washington D.C. for a rally for jobs and freedom. The event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face. (http://stanford.io/1HmHQzv) -
Bombing of Birmingham Church
This was an act of white supremacist terrorism. Four members of the KKK planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device underneath the front steps of the church. The bombing killed 4 young African American girls. (http://cnn.it/1tWsdot) -
Twenty-fourth Amendmet
Prohibit 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. (http://bit.ly/16YM6G0) -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was also known as the Mississippi Summer project. This was a volunteer campaign in the United States in an attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in the South. (http://bit.ly/2eBM5ja) -
Civil Rights Act passed
This is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the US that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. (http://bit.ly/1udSFsU) -
"The Southern Manifesto"
This document was also known as the Declaration of Constitutional Principles and was written in opposition to racial integration of public areas. 101 politicians signed this manifesto. (http://to.pbs.org/1hc6YZt) -
Malcolm X Assassinated
On the 21st day in February, which was one week after his home was firebombed, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in NYC. (http://cnn.it/1Em7kss) -
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Selma to Montgomery March
Selma, Alabama was the focus of efforts to register black Voters in the South. As protesters attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery they were bombarded with violence by state and local authorities. This march helped raise awareness of the difficulties faced by black voters in the South and a Voting Rights Act was passed later that year. [http://bit.ly/1nGD5oz] -
Voting Rights Act approved
This act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson and was aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local level that prevented African Americans from exercising their rights to vote. (http://bit.ly/2smVNcc) -
King Assassinated
A little after 6 p.m. on the 4th day in April, King was standing on the second floor balcony of the of the Lorraine Motel. Him and his associates were staying at the motel when a sniper's bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to the hospital and later pronounced dead at the age of 39. (http://bit.ly/2jcvUIR)
