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Separate but equal begins (Plessy v. Ferguson verdict)
Supreme Court rules that ‘separate but equal’ facilities for different races are legal. -
Naacp is formed
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. -
Core is formed ( The Congress of Racial Equality)
us civil rights movement organisation that played a large role in significant progress towards racial equality -
Jackie Robinson joins the Dodgers
Jackie Robinson reached a milestone in the civil rights movement by becoming the first black baseball player. -
rosa parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for not letting a white man have her seat on the bus. Dr. Martin Luther King had a meeting and told all blacks to boycott the bus company by not riding the bus. On December 5, 1955, almost all blacks refused to ride th bus. On January 30, 1956, Martin Luther Kings house was bombed. The Boycott continued for another year, untill the Supreme Court ended it. On November 13, 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on busses was illegal. -
Establishment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth, of which King is made the first president. The SCLC becomes a major force in organizing the civil rights movement and bases its principles on nonviolence and civil disobedience. According to King, it is essential that the civil rights movement not sink to the level of the racists and hatemongers who oppose them: "We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline," he urges. -
Central High Crisis
The "Little Rock Nine" was a group of black students that went to Little Rock Central Highschool. The Crisis at Central High School was when students were prevented to go to the segregated school. Governor Orval Faubus segregated the school. Then later the NAACP allowed 9 black students into the school (Little Rock Nine). The students were treated very uinfairly. Some got verbally abused, but others were abused physically. -
Medgar Evers murdered
Head of Mississippi NAACP is shot outside his home on the same night that Pres. Kennedy addresses the nation on race, asking "Are we to say to the world...that this is a land of the free except for Negroes" -
March on Washington - i have a dream speech
More than 200,000 blacks and whites gather before Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches (including King's "I Have a Dream") and protest racial injustice -
civil rights act passed
Overcoming Senate filibuster, Congress passes law forbidding racial discrimination in many areas of life, including hotels, voting, employment, and schools -
Mississippi Summer Freedom Project
Civil rights workers seek to register blacks to vote. 3 are killed and many black homes and churches are burned. National outrage helps pass civil rights legislation -
martin luther king assassinated
While supporting sanitation workers' strike which had been marred by violence in Memphis, King is shot by James Earl Ray. Riots result in 125 cities
