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PLESSY V. FERGUSON
RAFOJCLOne of the most well-known Supreme Court cases in American history. A man named Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a white train carriage while identifying himself as black. This is where the term "seperate but equal" arises from. -
BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
TSCECRA landmark US Supreme Courtcase in which the Plessy V. Ferguson rulings were overturned. It was reviewed that black and white schools were allegedly only "substantially" unequal. This gave people more eduational freedom to choose where they wanted to go to school. -
EMMET TILL MURDERED
TMOETTEmmet Till goes into a grocery store, and some white boys accuse him of flirtingwith a married white woman. Her husband and his brother kidnap Emmet and beat him to death. His mother gives him an open casket funeral, and his mutilated cosrpse sparks outrage in African Amerians across the nation. -
ROSA PARKS & THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
MBBCRHRosa Parks was arrested for not moving in order to allow a white man to sit in a ertain seat. This spurred MLK to organize a boycott on the buses in that area. Since the bus companies were losing money, they decided to allow anyone to sit wherever they want on a bus. -
FOUNDING SCLC & MLK
SCLCBPROn this day approximately 60 black ministers and civil rights leaders came together in Georgia. They elected Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as president over the association because of his success with the bus boycotts in Montgomery. They discussed different plans to promote civil rights and fight back as peacefully and civily as possible against segregation. -
LITTLE ROCK NINE
IOCHSBHNine highshool students were selected to attend an all-white school in Arkansas. They were carefully vetted and counseled on what to expect as they attend school, and how people were going to treat them. The President himself had to assign federal military gaurds to allow the students itno classes. Only one ofthey nine was able to graduate from that particular schoolo, but they did all manage to have a profound impact on American history. -
GREENSBORO SIT-IN
GSILOACRMStarted with four young men who were inspired by the non-violent protests of the freedom riders. They were arressted, but their bravery encouraged others to participate in sit-ins throughout the surrounding areas. Eventually many businesses had to compromise and allow integrated seating since they were losing so much business. -
FREEDOM RIDERS
FRHLSThese were brave black and white Americans who decided to ride buses from Washington to New Orleans and sit in the opposite colored seat sections of the bus, and use the opposite ccolored bathrooms at rest stops along the way. They wanted to prove to everyone that they weren't going to bow down to Southern segregation any longer. Even though many were hurt and killed even, they persevered and gained the attention they wanted to be able to show how unwilling the South was to compromise. -
MARCH ON WASHINGTON
MOWBHThis march was organized by a large number of different civil rights groups and organizations. Over 200,000 people participated as a form of non-violent protest. This is where MLK gave his famous "I have a dream" speech, and incited the passing of the civil rights act -
SNCC & FREEDOM SUMMER
FSBHThe Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee organized a program to raise the eligibility for black people in Mississippi to vote. They chose this particular place because of just how low the amount of black voters there were. After they helped them become eligible to vote, it became known as freedom summer. -
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
CRABHThis was drawn up while JFK was in office, but LBJ ended up being the one to sign it. This not only declared an end to discrimination in hiring according torace, but sex, color, religion, and national origin. After this was approved, blacks became more daring and started to stand up forthemselves even more knowing that they had the law to back them up. -
MALCOLM X ASSASSINATED
MXAFMalcolm X was a popular civil rights activist who angered many people with his radical views on racial equality. A week before he was assassinated his home was fire bombed, and he was lucky to nothave been hurt. He was shot to death by opposing black nation of Islam members at a rally. -
VOTING RIGHTS ACT
VRAIBHLeading up to the voting rights act, in Alabama state troopers had attacked petitioners with tear gas, whips, and night sticks. LBJ realized the unfairness towards blacks regarding polls,and had already decided that he would do something about it. He signed the voting rights actfor the betterment of society, and to make everything more fair for blaks across the country. -
MLK ASSASSINATED
DKIAAHe was shot allegedly byJames Earl Ray while standing on his balcony. MLK had been about to head to a dinner for a rally he had been organizing. It turns out that he wasn't very well liked since people thought he was a communist, and he had been under review for a while until he died.
