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Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. board of education started the separate but equal facilities.
The case started when a young black girl from Kansas was denied entrance to her elementary school because of her skin color.
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Emmett Till
Emmett Till was from Chicago and was visiting his family in the south in the town of Money. Not knowing the rules in the south he inappropriately called out a white women, resulting in him getting kidnapped, brutally beaten, then shot, and dumped into the Tallahatchie River. The two white who did the crime were arrested and taken to court with an all white jury. The jury calls them not guilty, even though all evidence pointed towards them -
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to up her bus seat
The bus Parks was one was getting full and Parks had to get out of her seat for a white person. She refused. The bus driver then called the police to make her move.
The result of this was Rosa having to move to Detroit Michigan, because of ally the harassment she received because of the boycott. In Detroit she became an administrative aide in the Detroit office of Congressman John Conyers Jr. -
Events at Little Rock, Arkansas
In 1957 a group of 9 African Americans were enrolled into Little Rock Central High School. Once word got out about Blacks going to school with Whites, people had huge mobs appear in front of the school and forbid to let the students in. After finding out about the terrible events in Little Rock, president Eisenhower helped the students out by sending the Army's 101st Airborne Division to protect the students. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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Attack of the Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists that challenged segregation laws. The Freedom Riders began on May 4th, 1961. Organizations such as CORE and the SNCC were the most subsequent Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders were also not only Blacks but Whites too. -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
When James Meredith was enrolled to Ole Miss, an all White school, a riot broke out. Whites who were against integration showed up at the school and started to become violent. Some brought guns and during the riot two men were killed from gunshot wounds. The day after the riot U.S. troops came, and with their assistance, Meredith became the first Aftrican American to go Ole Miss. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Arrested
MLK is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Alabama. During the protest that day, police officers used fire hoses and dogs on the protesters. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was an African American civil rights activist who wanted more voting rights and to gain more social justice.
He got assassinated when he had just returned from a meeting with NAACP lawyers, as he got out of his car he got shot in the head and dies later that day in the hospital. -
The March on Washington
At the March of Washington Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in front of around 2500,000 people. The purpose of the march was for African Americans to get civil and economic rights. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the law banned segregation based on race, gender, religion, and color and it also banned unequal voting rights. -
Malcolm X Assassinated
Malcolm X was a black nationalist and founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, until he was shot to death. The shooters are believed to be members of the Black Muslim faith, which Malcolm had just abandoned and switched to orthodox Islam. -
March to Selma
The march was organized to high racial injustice in the south and to get more equal voting rights. After the march the president did sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965. During the march on a day later called "Bloody Sunday", the demonstrators ran into some trouble with the police. Troopers began beating the demonstrators with sticks and fired tear gas at them. 17 protesters were hospitalized and 50 had lesser injuries. -
Black Panthers
The Black Panthers were originally aimed toward self defense against police and mobs but the party grew and began aiming towards achieving black liberation. The party was known for getting into lots of violent confrontations with the police, sometimes there were even shootouts. -
Black Power
Stokely CArmicheal, a leader of the SNCC, uses the phrase "black power" during a speech in Seattle. The term was used for an assertion of black pride and "the coming together of black people to fight for their liberation by any means necessary." -
Thurgood Marshall
Before becoming a justice Marshall was a lawyer. Marshall becoming the first African American Justice was huge because he was America's first African American justice and now he can give his opinion from a black person's perspective. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot after standing on the balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39. He was quickly rushed to the hospital after being shot, but he did not make it. His death had such a great impact because of how much he changed American and America's ways.
