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Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court decision that states that racial segregation is constitutional. This supports separate but equal. -
Mendez vs. Westminster
Sylvia Mendez a 9 year old girl was not allowed to go to school with whites. This case helped desegregate California schools. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
A debate in Kansas, where court agrees that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till Murdered
Two white men commit the murder of a fourteen year old boy who supposedly whistled at a white women. The men were tried and were convicted unguilty and later bragged of getting away with murder. -
Rosa Parks REFUSES to give up her seat December, 1, 1955
Rosa Parks a black woman sitting in the colored section chose not to give her seat up to a white man. This sparked a bus boycott that last more than a year until buses are later desegregated. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks inspires people to stop riding the bus from unfair treatment of blacks. -
Little Rock 9
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by a lot of discrimination and these kids were hated among basically everyone. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests reversing its policy of racial segregation in the southern United States. While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history. -
The Freedom Ride Begins
Freedom Riders rode interstate buses into the segregated south to protest many civil rights violations. They ended up getting arrested for violating the Jim Crow Laws. -
March on Washington
Gathering of civil rights activist in Washington DC. Martin Luther King Jr, delivers his " I have a dream speech". -
"I have a dream"
Martin Luther King Jr, gives a speech on his dream for America as a non segregated country. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Four young girls were attending Sunday school when a bomb exploded and killed them. Evidence shows that it was an act of the KKK. -
24th Amendment
Supreme Court rules pole taxes unconstitutional due to the fact that there was a strategy from keeping African Americans from voting. -
Freedom Summer
A voting project in Mississippi to get more black people voting. -
“Bloody Sunday”- March from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL
600 people began walking a 54 mile long stretch from Selma to Montgomery. Six blocks into the march they were attacked by police mounted on horses. This marched was planned as a result of a local resident being killed by the police. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passes voting rights to make it easier for southern blacks to vote. Declaring that poll taxes, literacy test, and other requirements that limited blacks to voting are illegal. -
Executive Order 11246
This order prohibited discrimination. Job applications could no longer be ignored based skin color of the applicants. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead while on his balcony of his hotel room. An escaped racist convict committed the murder and Martin Luther King Jr. died at age 39. -
Black Panther Party
Oakland police ambushed a car full of Black Panther Members. An hour and a half shoot out soon took place. Bobby Hutton the first member to join the group surrendered to police and was shot dead. This event propelled the party and made the group much stronger. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act)
This prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex. Intended as a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the bill was the subject of a contentious debate in the Senate, but was passed quickly by the House of Representatives in the days after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
