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Was a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
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A protest in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.It was known as the "first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation".
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It's a desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, they gained national attention when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school.
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It was a civil rights protest where young African American students planned a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina they refused to leave after being denied service. Many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact, forcing Woolworth’s and other establishments to change their segregationist policies.
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250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (aka the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom), the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. Also It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech.
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King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference joined with Birmingham, Alabama’s Christian Movement for Human Rights, in a massive direct action campaign to attack the city’s segregation system by putting pressure on Birmingham’s merchants during the Easter season. It came to a successful end when many signs of segregation at Birmingham businesses came down and public places became accessible to people of all races.
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The Misissippi Summer Projet went down during this time it was a voter registation drive created to increase the number of black voters. Then over 700 mill. people (mostly white) helped the African Americans fight against voter intimmidations & discrimmination at the polls.
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This was formed to protest segregated housing, educational deficiencies, etc. based on racism. The movement included multiple rallies, marches and boycotts to address the variety of issues. King led a march near Marquette Park in a white neighborhood & about 30 people were injured, including King, who was hit in the head with a brick. After an agreement was announced to build public housing in white areas and to make mortgages available regardless of race or neighborhood.
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It was a large amount of series of riots that broke out on August 11, 1965, in the "Black" neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles. Watts Riots lasted for six days, resulting with 34,000 people involved and ending in the destruction of 1,000 buildings, totaling $40 million in damages. It resulted in gunfire and the arrest of people inside. Police ransacked the building next door and tear-gassed the sewers to prevent anyone from escaping.
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A political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton & Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. They dressed the same, in black berets, black leather jackets, & the Black Panthers organized armed citizen patrols of Oakland and other U.S. cities. The Black Panther Party roughly had about 2,000 members in 1968.
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released a report condemning racism as the primary cause of the recent surge of riots by Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois. The 11-member commission was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in July 1967 to uncover the causes of urban riots and recommend solutions.
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It was a series of more than 100 cases of civil unrest that occurred in the wake of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This turmoil was apparent all throughout the nation as racial tensions rose to a volatile level. The damage in the wake of King’s death also damaged many city’s economies and as a result thousands of jobs were lost, crime increased, property values decreased and most black communities were even more isolated from the rest of their cities than before the violence.
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In the hot summer of 1969 when Vivian Strong was killed by police in Omaha, Nebraska., It was the height of the civil rights movement and racial tension hung thick over the city. But for Vivian Strong and her sister Carol, now Carol Larry, the years leading up to her death in the Near North Side neighborhood were carefree and fun. Nothing witth her or North was ever the same.
