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Plessy V. Ferguson
Court case where Homer Plessy had been arested for sitting in a coach marked "for whites" but the court ruled in favor of Louisiana law requiring segregated railroad cars. This enforced the "seperate but equal rule". -
Founding of the NAACP
DuBois joined Hane Addams and other reformers in people, or NAACP -
Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball
An African American army Veteran named Jackie Robinson is signed on to the major leages rather than the negro league, starting an integration between the 2 races. -
The Military Integrates
President Harry Truman ordered the integration of all units of the armed forces. -
Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Murder of Emmet Till
When African American boy Emmet Till was brutally murdered for whistling suggestively to a lady. -
Motgomery Bus Boycott
A political protest/boycott against the policy of racial segregation on public transit in Motgomery, Alabama which continuedd to Rosa Parks being arrested in 1956 -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Greensboro Sit In
Four African-American students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s store. While sit-ins had been held elsewhere in the United States, the Greensboro sit-in catalyzed a wave of nonviolent protest against private-sector segregation in the United States. -
Freedom Rides
A group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. -
Birmingham Childrens March
The Birmingham Children's Crusade was a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, May 2–5, 1963, -
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the US. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations"). -
Malcom X Assasination
On February 21, 1965, one week after his home was firebombed, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. -
Selma March
The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Voting Rights Movement underway in Selma, Alabama. By highlighting racial injustice in the South, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. Activists publicized the three protest marches to walk the 54-mile highway from Selma to the Alabama state capital of Montgomery as showing the desire of African-American citizens to exercise -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. -
Watts Riot
The Watts riots were race riots that took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 17, 1965.
The wartime defense industries in Los Angeles had attracted many African-Americans, who had difficulty finding work after 1945. The maintaining of all-white suburbs in certain areas of the city contributed to racial tensions. Additionally, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was adopting a more military culture, largely approved by the -
Ferguson Riots
An ongoing series of protests and civil disorder began the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri. The unrest sparked a vigorous debate in the United States about the relationship between law enforcement officers and African Americans, the militarization of the police, and the use of force doctrine in Missouri and nationwide.
