Elizabeth, Melina, and Kyle (period 1)

By edolbeck1

  • Voting Discrimination

    A group of civil rights activists protested outside the White House in the summer. That same summer they demanded the Ku Klux Klan be outlawed.

  • African American applied to the University of Texas

    University of Texas did not except black students.

  • Committee on Civil Rights

    President Truman responded with the committee on civil rights to study racial discrimination and suggest solutions.
  • Ending segregation in the Military

    Ending segregation in the Military

  • NAACP focused on ending segregation in schools

    Cases came together under the title of Brown vs Board of Education.

  • Sweatt vs Painter

    Supreme Court ruled that the new school did not provide African Americans with equal academic prestige, facilities, or intructors.

  • Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal

  • The Court made their ruling stronger, ordering them to hurry and desegregate

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white person. This case was used to challenge the bus segregation law.

  • Segregation on the bus was legal

    Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery's segregated bus system was legal. This event brought Martin Luther King Jr. to the movement.

  • Little Rock Nine

    The school board selected nine outstading African American students to attend Central High School
  • Daisy Bates and Elizabeth Eckford

    Daisy Bates and Elizabeth Eckford

    Daisy Bates arranged for high school students to get a ride, but Eckford did not get the message.She went to school by herself and a mob met her.
  • Ernest Green became the first African American to graduate from Central High School

    Ernest Green became the first African American to graduate from Central High School

  • Schools finially reopened under court order and began intergration