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Birth Of the Klu Klux Klan
6 college students founded the Ku Klux Klan between December 1865 and the summer of 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee. The 6 men organized as a fraternity and spent their time in horseplay including wearing disguises and running around town at night. They were surprised to learn that their nightly appearances were causing fear, mainly towards the slaves in the area. The quickly took advantage of that. -
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball player. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was important in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for 6 decades. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and supporter of Black Nationalist leaders . Malcolm was a smart student, but when a favorite teacher told Malcolm his dream of becoming a lawyer was "no realistic goal for a nigger," Malcolm lost interest in school. He dropped out, and traveled to Harlem, New York where he started committing crimes. -
Emmett Till
Emmit Till was an African-American who was murdered in Mississippi at only 14 after being said he was flirting with a white woman. He was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting family in the Delta region when he spoke to the 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married white woman proprietor of a small grocery store. -
Freedom Rides
In 1961 CORE undertook a new idea aimed at desegregating public transportationin the south the south. These ideas became known as the "Freedom Rides". The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when 7 african americans and 6 whites left Washington, D.C., on 2 public buses going to the Deep South. They wanted to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia , which said segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
Bloody Sunday
Between 1961 and 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led a voting campaign in Selma, Alabama, a town with a consistent resistance to black voting. When SNCC’s efforts were frustrated by resistance from the county law enforcements, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were persuaded by locals to make Selma’s intransigence to black voting a national concern. -
Watts Race Riots
On 11th August, 1965, 2 African Americans were arrested by white police officers for a small vehicle violation in a small neighbourhood in Los Angeles. some young kids said that the police officers had been influenced by the race of the 2 men and surrounded the car. When the police went into the neighbourhood they were attacked with rocks and bottles. The incident turned into a riot and a large number of businesses were fire-bom
