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Emmett Till
Emmett Till Emmett Till walked into a store and on his way out he said "Bye" to a white lady. Four days later his body was found beaten in the lake. This caused a uproar and made people prostest. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man, and then became arrested. The city then started a bus boycott and almost no blacks rode the bus. Eleven months later congress stated that segregated buses were unconstitutional. -
Little Rock
Little Rock Nine Little Rock Arkansa decided to intergrate schools and nine black children were the first to be among a white school campus. Troops had been outside the school to turn students away. Eisenhower then said to not over ride his rules. The children then proceeded to go to school where many were harrassed. -
Sit Ins
Sit Ins Since most cities were segregated, many African Americans would not be able to sit at lunch counters. So many decided to start a movement which consisted of sitting at the segregated lunch counters and getting arrested. This quickly filled up the jails. It worked, which soon made it okay to sit at lunch counters. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were activist who challenged segregation in bus terminals going to the south. Many became hurt because many riots and mobs would often be waiting outside the buses to beat the protestors in the buses. -
Albany Movement
Martin Luther King Jr. led more campaigns and wanted the protestors to fill up the jails, until the city would agree on desegregating. In 1962 King called off demonstrations and left, which made the albany movement a major defeat for him. -
March on Washington
March On Washinton A huge march took place fighting for jobs and freedom. More than 200,000 people showed up making it the largest civil rights movement in the nation. This is when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Civil RIghts Act of 1964
Act signed into law in 1964 that banned discrimination in employment and in public accommodations. Many southerners in congress fought hard to eliminate the law but Johnson signed it into law. -
Selma
Selma King began campaigns to gain voting rights for blacks by organizing marches. By the end of January, 2,000 protestors and marchers had been arrested. King repeated the tactic they used in Birmingham, which included of protestors filling up the city jails. -
Voting Rights Act 1965
Civil Rights law that banned literacy tests and other practices that discouraged blacks from voting. This was the most important piece of Civil Rights legislation ever passed. Within three weeks 27,000 African Americans in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama registered to vote.
