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Plessy-v- Ferguson U.S. Supreme Court Case
The Plessy-v- Ferguson U.S. Supreme Court Case came around when Homer Plessy refused to ride in a Jim Crow car. He was brought forth to the law saying that it interfered with the 13th and 14th Admendment. With a 7 to 1 vote, Ferguson won. The race problem continued to expand until the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education. -
College Integration
The Integration of Ole Miss Arkansas desegregates its state university. The Supreme Court orders the admission of a black student to the University of Oklahoma School of Law, a white school, because there is no law school for Blacks. Slowly, colleges became desegregated and blacks could attend schools with whites. -
Brown v. Board of Education
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed segregation. -
Emmet Till Murder
Emett Till was a 14 years old when he was murdered for flirting with a white girl. Two white men beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body into the river. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks, an African American, refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. She was arrested and fined. This was only a few days before the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. Park's court hearing lasted 381 days and lead to the integration of Montgomery's Bus System. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The Montgomery Bus Boycott are looked at as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks’ court hearing and lasted 381 days. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was elected as the SCLC’s first President.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was selected to serve as President for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference because of his work with segregation. Basic decisions made by the founders at these early meeting included nonviolent mass action as a strategy and a determination to make the SCLC movement open to all, regardless of race, religion, or background. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine refers to the first time African American enrolled in an all white school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Govenor Faubus put the National Guard at the doors the keep the black students from entering the school. The students were bullied, stalked, and harrassed on a daily basis. -
Cooper v. Aaron
A response to Little Rock Nine. A Supreme Court Case that said that you have to intergrate schools. You can't choose not to. -
Sit-Ins
Students that participated in sit-ins were protesting against segregation in general. The students role played to get used to these situations. The SNCC was created due to these sit-ins. SNCC stands for Student Nonviolent Cordinating Committee. -
Freedom Rides
The Freedom Riders History Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
Medgar Evers Assassination
Civil Rights Movement Videos At 37 years old, Medgar Ever, a civil rights activites and secretary for the NAACP, was shot in the back while walking up to his house. Medgar Ever was shot by a white supremacist, Byron De La Beckwith. -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This rally shed a light on African American social problems. This included Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech." -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy Videos
The assassination of JFK took place in Dallas Texas. Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Videos The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. took place at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. This left the country in shock.
