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Plessy v. Ferguson
May 18, 1896
A cases in which the Supreme Court advanced the infamous “separate but equal” doctrine for accessing racial segregationally laws. This case stem from the incident in 1892 when African American train passenger refused to give up his seat in defiance of the separate car act of 1890 which was the first law to legally segregate the races. -
Brown V Board of Education
A landmark Supreme Court case where they declared unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools unconstitutional. This broke the separate but equal laws from before. After his daughter, Linda Brown, was denied entrance Oliver brown filed a law suit against the school and claimed that segregation violated the 14th amendment which claims that the state cannot “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection laws. -
Murder of Emmett Til
Emmett Til a 14 year old African American boy was lynched after a white women said she was offended by for allegedly flirting with a white women in her grocery store -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Park was an equal rights activist who refused to give her sear up to a white person in the bus.
The Montgomery Bus boycott was a civil rights protest where African American, like Rosa Park, refused to give up there seat and protest segregated seagtings. -
Founding of the SCLC
Formed after the Montgomery bus boycott The SCLC was a regional organization that sought to organize protest in a non-violent manner in hopes of equality. -
Little Rock Nine & Central High School
A group of nine black students who were enrolled at a formerly all-white Central High school in Little Rock, Arkansas. Their attendance was a testament to the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in school unconstitutional. -
Greensboro Sit-in
A protest started by young African American students who staged a sit In at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They refused to leave when denied service and kept calm under much tension. The sit-ins soon spread throughout colleges all over the South. Many protesters were arrested for trespassing. -
Freedom Ride/Freedom Riders
Groups of mixed White and African American civil rights activist to took bus rides together in bus trips through the South. The group faced arresting police and violent harassers along the routes and drew international attention. In Anniston, Alabama the bus they were riding were bombed. -
March on Washington
A massive protest march where more than 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The event featured Martin Luther King Jr famous I have a dream speech. The event was to draw attention to the continuing challenges African Americans faced 100 years after emancipation. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) & Freedom Summer
A voter’s registration aimed at in increasing black voters’ registration in Mississippi, which included more than 1000 out of state white volunteers. The ku klux klan and police carried out series of violent acts against them including false arrest, arson, and even murder -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act ended the segregation of races in public places and ban discrimination in employment and education on the basis of race, sex, or religion. It was signed under JFK and was later expanded by congress. -
Malcom X assassination
In New York City, while addressing his Organization of Afro American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights was killed by a rival Black Muslim. This was one week after his home was bombed -
Voting Rights Act
Signed by President Lyndon B Johnson, the Voting rights act of 1965 was created to overcome the legal barriers at the state and local levels of government that prevented African American using their right to vote that was garnered in 15th amendment -
Martin Luther King Assassination
April 4 1968
In Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
