-
Plessy vs Ferguson
Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in the white car because under the law he was considered black. His lawyer said it was against the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendmentand so the Supreme decided it over. The decision was that seperation was okay if only it was equal. ttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_plessy.html -
Brown vsBoard of Education
Oliver Brown went to court against the Topeka, Kansas school board because they had seperated public schools for blacks and whites. Brown metioned it was against the Fourteenth Amendment that there were sepreatd public schools. The Supreme Court decided that seperated schools was unconstitutinal and let blacks and whites go to the same school now. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was acused of whistling to a white woman and was kidnapp by her husband and his half brother. Emmett was brutally beaten up, killed, and thrown into a river. A huge jury came from it and got the attention of Europen countries as well. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/timeline/timeline2.html -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was trired from working and sitting oin the ccolored section they told her to move but she refused. She was areested and got the attetion of Martin Luther King Jr. who lead the boycott on the busses that no black should ride the bus. From this bus companies lost money and so the South was angry and this boycott was the first step into the revolution. http://www.ushistory.org/us/54b.asp -
Founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & Martin Luther King
This group was createdwhen sixty black ministers got together and having Martin Luther King Jr. as president. This grouped was weak in the beginning but got stronger with at the new movements that were going on. even after the death of MLK they helped the South to get equality for blacks and still going on today. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/southern-christian-leadership-conference-1957 -
Little Rock Nine & Central High School
With segregation gone within public school nine African-Amerian students try to go in Central High. A whote mob and tyhe National Guard were stopping them from going but from the President telling them to step down the students went in. This showed one of the few of public schools having blacks and whites mixed and having one of them graduating from that school. http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_little_rock_school_desegregation_1957/ -
Greensboro Sit-In
Four college students sat down in a "whites only" section in a dine in place. Refused to take their order the four college students kept on sitting there waiting for someone to take their order and so on this week more and more people joinedd them. From thjis it spread to other cities that lead sit-ins and led another way to have a non-violent way to help the blacks get equality. http://www.sitinmovement.org/history/greensboro-chronology.asp -
Freedom Ride/Freedom Riders
It was one dozen mixded white and blacks activists to ride a bus through out the South. They were met with violence throught their travel and were beaten up, almost set into flames, and put into jail. This got the attention of people natioonwide and a petition was created that there should not be any segregation in interstate travel/. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/freedom-rides-1961 -
Marh on Washington
This was the huges movement rally for human rights to happen in the US ever. It was Marh that ended up in Licoln Memorial where Martin Luther King Jr. said his famous "I have a dream" speech. This movement was the last one that helped end segregation.http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=96 -
Civil Rights Acts
This act was passed by President Lyndon Johnson to prohibit discrimenation in public. This act let blacks into white places and not have meant to not have any trouble. This act impated the black society because now segregation was over in public spaces and meant to unite everybody. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=97 -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) & Freedom Summer
The SNCC organization were reruting college students to work in Mississippi andtrying to get African-Americans to vote. They challenged the right of all-whote congressional delagetion but were attacked and punished. It helped Congress see what happened and let blacks vote and run for office or any political postition in Mississippi. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-4294963805&dsRecordDetails=R:CS3707 -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcom X was shot down by a Nation of Muslim member supposly under the order of Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm was growing in power having more member for his unity and this was a problem for others. This assassination impacted the nation because oneof the two most huge civil rights activists has died. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/142725 -
Voting Rights Act (1965)
In the South blacks couldnt vote unless they passed a few tests and it was different than the ones the whites had to take. Violene accured that got President Lyndon Johnson attention and knew there must be a change in the voting acts. He passed this law that prohibit the discrimination of the tests the blacks had to take to vote. http://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100 -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was arriving in Tennessee for a march that would happen on the following Monday.Walking outside the next day to talk to an organization he was shot down on the balcony and pronouned dead. This assassination brought a riot and later that week a ceremony happened for MLK's funurel gathering everybody nationwidein one spot seeing the death of an important person. http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_kings_assassination_4_april_1968/
