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Brown vs. Board of Education
Linda Brown was an African American who got forced to go to one of the 4 black schools in Kansas. Her father and her were outraged so they kept going to the Supreme court until it was fixed. African Americans were allowed in public schools in June 1994. -
Rosa Parks 1955
Rosa Parks was on a bus in Montgomery Alabama in 1955. She was in the front of the bus and the bus was getting full. The bus driver, James Blake, demanded her to move so a white could sit in her seat. She wouldn't move for the white to sit in her seat, so she got arrested. Rosa Parks got arrested in standing up for what she believed in. -
Little Rock NIne
Event: Little Rock NIne 1957
In Montgomery, Alabama 9 blacks registered in an all white school. They would all show up together so they were safer. They were trained to resist pressure. These 9 kids faced discrimination and they knew that everyone should be treated equally. -
Greensboro Sitins
The Greensboro Sit-Ins were made up of many African American groups that got together to talk about and fix the civil rights of different race’s than Americans. (stop segregation) They had a template for non violent resistance and had success. It helped fix segragtion by getting together in different restaruants and diners. -
Freedom Rides 1961!
In Washington D.C some whites and blacks took bus trips through the American South to protest segregation, African freedom riders tried to use white bathrooms, lunch counters, etc. In 1961 the Interstate commercial commission issued regulation prohibiting segregation in bus and train stations nationwide.Commerce Commision stopped segragation on bus and train. -
MLK Arrested
Martin Luther King was protesting (nonviolently) against segregation in Alabama. He got arrested for trying to speak about what he felt. In the Birmingham Jail, he wrote his famous “letter from Birmingham City Jail” MLK was in Jail for 11 days and he stood up for what he believed in. -
Civil right Act
Despite Kennedy’s assassination in November, his proposal culminated in the Civil Rights act 1964, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson just a few hours after the house approved on July 2nd. It ended dicrimanation legally and blacks and whites were equal. -
Voting Rights of 1965
Section 2 of the acts prohibits any state or local government from imposing a voting law that will discriminate against different races, Black and whites could both vote. It prohibited dicrimination in voting. -
MLK Assasination
Martin Luther King was shot in the neck at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. Ray escaped prison a year before MLK’s assassination. This was n ot good for black communities because the knew whites were out to get blacks since Martin Luther King was shot.
