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Supreme court case that decided colleges and other post-secondary institutions must admit black students -
Grassroots movements to fight for African American civil rights. -
Landmark court case which outlawed the segregation of colored passengers on busses crossing state lines -
14 year old boy Emmett till takes a vacation with his family. When a white woman falsely accused him of cat calling her. Young Emmett was lynched by white men and murdered -
A mass protest against the bus system in Montgomery Alabama. Triggered by the arrest of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a white person. -
After the segregation of schools was ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court, schools were required to integrate with haste. 9 students were chosen based on grades to enter Little Rock highschool. Many people did not like this, and the national guard had to be called in to protect them.
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This was legislation signed by President Eisenhower, that established a federal commission to go and observe and stop discriminatory action. It was the first bill of its kind since reconstruction after the civil war. -
A civil rights organization that is an offshoot of the Montgomery Association based in Atlanta. -
Supreme court case denying Little Rock the ability to delay integration by 30 months. -
A non-violent protest against segregated lunch counters in Greensboro NC. This protest caught on around the South and became a popular form of protest.
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Local black leaders, the SNCC, and the NAACP formed a desegregation coalition in Albany. This coalition, aided by Martin Luther King Jr was designed to bring attention to the brutal enforcement of racial segregation. -
Groups of white and black protesters rode cross country through the South. Protesting segregation of bus terminals, bathrooms, and most other public services -
Protests erupted on campus as locals, students, and segregationists protested the enrollment of black students into college. -
Where MLK delivered the ¨I have a Dream ¨ speech. Considered to be the largest protest of its time, the march helped to show lawmakers that they meant business. -
A movement organized by SCLC to call attention to the racial segregation laws through peaceful protest and to show the nation the brutal response of the city to their actions. -
A civil rights leader from Mississippi, and the first NAACP field secretary in Mississippi. -
A 1964 voter registration drive, was designed to help black Americans register to vote. Led by mostly white volunteers, 17,000 people registered and only about 1,200 were successful -
This act signed into law by LBJ prevented any discrimination by race, color, religion, or sex. -
After the civil rights act, the motel attempted to sue the united states saying that the act was unconstitutional. The court found that it was constitutional, upholding the act.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, to ensure that African Americans could use their right to vote -
The act signed into law by LBJ to outlaw discriminatory voting practices adopted in the south after the civil war -
While addressing his followers in the Audubon, the leader of the Black Panther Party was shot. Leaving behind his wife and children, and becoming a martyr in death -
The first African American enrolled at Mississippi state university. Began a solitary walk from Memphis Tennessee, to Jackson Mississippi to call attention to racism. -
Made it illegal to discriminate in housing based on color, race, religion, sexuality, gender -
She was the first non-white person to run for a major party nomination. -
James Earl Ray shot MLk in his motel room on the night of April fourth. Leading to riots across the country -
A landmark supreme court case to help with bussing students in regard to integration of schools. -
In Boston, African American students were harassed and attacked on school busses after they had integrated -
Hank Aaron was an African American baseball player, who broke Babe Ruth´s all-time home run record -
Barbara Jordan became the first colored person to deliver an address at a major party´s convention -
A supreme court case that decided the University of California could not discriminate against admission based on race