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In 1857 people had fought the idea that African Americans and slaves as a whole weren't seen as citizens but as property. -
The KKK was a loosely organization group which was against any African American. They were a group of terrorism who wanted to intimidate African voters. -
The case of Shelly v. Allwright was about the Texas law for all white political primaries to exclude African Americans as well with disenfranchised voters. Putting restrictions on who and who can't vote. -
University of Texas had created three different rooms within the basement with a small library for African Americans to have been lectured alone. This went to court which provided equal education for them -
In the year 1954 African Americans had ruled against school segregation. It was a battle in which they had wanted African Americans to receive the same and equal education as white Americans. -
Nine African American teens had been the first to enter Little Rock's Central High School. This was a problem and new to so many people that they needed security walking into the school and many weren't in terms with this. -
The case of Emmett Till was about a 14 year old boy who had been killed. It was reported that Emmett was flirting/harassing a local white women. This was happening as he had been visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi. As he was being accused of something so harsh he was then kidnapped, beaten, and shot in the head. In his trial fighting for justice his half brother J.W. Milam and Rob Bryant had been accused of his murder. No one else was prosecuted for the involvement. -
This case is what strived Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. to take a stand and speak up for equal rights. It was about the Alabama public transportation laws that were put. -
Public schools were still violating the 14th amendment and it had sparked national reactions -
This case helped win over and end most racial discrimination in states within the South and elsewhere as it determined that states couldn't nullify and disobey the decisions of federal courts. -
South Carolina was said to be violating students First Admendment rights -
Sixty African American pastors and civil right leaders from multiple southern states gathered up and were present for the "I have a dream" speech. -
This case was holding weather legislators should not forfeit their rights within speaking upon public issues. -
This was a group associated network of white supremacist that had been concentrated in the South and was created part of a white backlash against the US Supreme Court -
Court had refused to look into a whether court order agaisnt Birmingham civil rights protesters violating the first Admendment -
This case was about an African American women who had married a white male. It was a landmark civil right decision of the US Supreme Court ruled banning marriage between different races. -
This case was about a district court remedy of segregation in a Missouri school district. The court had ordered multiple amount of changes. -
Rosa Parks was an American Activist within the civil rights movement. She was given the name "the first lady of civil rights" by the United States Congress. She had been arrested December 1st because she had refused to give up her seat in a crowded bus against a white passenger. -
46 year old George Floyd was an African American man who had been murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis Minnesota while being arrested. -
Tyre Nichols was a 29 year old African American who had been killed and beaten by five African Americans officers. He had died three days after the attack happened while hospitalized. This happened because he was said to be reckless driving which ended him running away from the police.
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