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Emmett Till
Emmett was a young boy who was 14 years old. He was from Chicago and went to Mississippi. One day he said "hi" to a white lady and it got serious. It got serious to a point that he was beaten and was shot in his head. It was a very sad news to his mother that her son was beaten and shot dead for saying "hi" to a white lady. On his funeral, his mother left the coffin open for people to see how badly they killed her son. They caught the man who shot Emmett and he was reported not guilty in 1 hour. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Backs were not allowed to sit in front of the bus, only allowed to sit in the back. Rosa Parks one day went on the bus and sat in the front. A white person walked int he bus and told her to move but she refused. They aressted Rosa for refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white person. Bombs were thrown at boycott homes and also MLK Jr. The bus segregation was unconstutuional. -
Little Rock
In Little Rock they maintain segregated schools. The governor Fabus wasn't going to segregate schools but ended up doing that. The blacks entered for the side of the schools so they couldn't get attacked by the mobs. The mobs were out their ready to go attack them but the guards were there to stop them. On graduation only one black student graduated out of all white students. Later they shut all schools down because they didn't want any black students. -
Sit-Ins
One day at school, there were four students sitting at a table at lunch. The white students came up to them and told them to move. The black students refused to get up from the table. They got into an argument and fight. All the other black students stood up for themselves. the police came and going to arrest them. There was more than 50 students but the police aressted all of them anyway for refusing to get up from the table for the whites. The student nonviolent commitee was known as snick. -
Freedom Rides
In 1961, the Freedom Riders, a brave group of men and women, black and white, young and old, boarded buses, trains and planes headed for the deep South to test the 1960 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in all interstate public facilities. They found violence in Alabama and were jailed in Jackson, Mississippi. -
The Albany Movement
Albany city representatives negotiate a deal with Albany movement leaders. The city agrees to free all the jail demonstrater, desegregate Albany bus train facilities, and arrange a meeting at which grievances of black people will be heard. The city will renege on the deal. -
Birmingham
In Beiningham Martin Luther King Jr. went to jail to set an example. He wrote a letter saying he wanted justice for blacks. All the kids started marching for getting kicked out of school. The guards let their dogs loose to go attack the black to stop the march and put water on everyone too. Later JFK accepted civil rights. -
"Bloody Sunday" in Selma
On Sunday March 7, 1965 about six hundred people led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams began a fifty-four mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot three weeks earlier by an state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration. -
The Voting Rights Act
This “act to enforce to fifthteen amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified. In those years, African Americans in the South faced tremendous obstacles to voting, including poll taxes, literacy tests, and other bureaucratic restrictions to deny them the right to vote. They also risked harassment, intimidation, economic reprisals, and physical violence when they tried to register or vote. -
The Black Panthers Party
The Black Panther Party was a political organization that stood in the vanguard of the most powerful movement for social change in America since the Revolution of 1776 and the Civil War: that generally referred to as the 60's. It is the sole black organization in the history of black struggle against slavery and oppression in the U.S. that was armed and promoted a revolutionary agenda, and it represents the last great thrust by the mass of black people for equality, justice, and freedom.
