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Plessy V.S. Ferguson Case
Supreme Court Ruled that having to seperate societites, one black and one white was okay as long as the conditions were equal. This lead to segregation everywhere in the time to come after, in schools, drinking fountains, pools, restuarants, and pretty much every other place was segregated. -
Jackie Robinson Broke Color Barrier in Professional Baseball
Jackie Robinson was one of the people who fueled the change, by breaking the color barrier to show that African Americans were just as good as whites. -
Supreme Courts School Integration Ruling
The Supreme Court ruled that schools should be inetegrated. -
Rosa Parks refused to givr up her seat on public transportation bus
Rosa Parks refused to givr up her seat and allowed her self to be arrested and fined ten dollars rather then get up and give her seat up to a white person. This sparked a flame in the civil rights movement. -
Beginning of bus boycott
Sparked by the arrest of rosa parks, and unofficially commanded by Martin Luther King Jr. African Americans boycotted use of public transportation until segregation on busses was ended, and African American drivers were allowed to drive routes that serviced primarily African Americans. -
Supreme Court ruled segregation on buses was unconstitutional
The Supreme Court ruled segregation on buses was unconstitutional and city officials reluctantly agreed to follow the rules of the Supreme Court. -
The president of the united states sent soldiers of 101st airborne regiment
president eisenhour sent ariborne troops of the 101st airborne regiment to protect the students, and took the arkansas guard out of state control into his control. -
Little Rock 9
9 black students known as the little rock 9 attempted to enter a white school and were prevented by the Arkansas national gaurd that the govenor of arkansas sent to prevent the African American Students from entering the school. -
Little Rock nine students snuck in through a back door.
Little rock nine students enetered in through a back door and when citzens heard, they were irate. -
First Sit-in
Four african Americans sat at an all white counter and were refused service, this was a new tactic that was added to the list of tactics for the civil rights movemnt. -
First African American To attend Colledge.
James meredith became the first African American to attend colledge at the universioty of mississippi. -
Banned poll tax
The 24th ammendmnet banned the poll tax in 1964. -
President Johnson signed equality bill
This made it illegal to refuse employment based on race, and also made segregation illegal.