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Little Rock Crisis
On May 17,1954 the Supreme court ruled in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education that segregate schools are "natrually unequal" In September1957 as the result of that ruling 9 African American students got enrolled in Central High School, this particular school was an "all white school' Gorvenor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at the High School. -
The Southern Manifesto
This document was signed in 1956 by 82 representatives and 19 senators it urged that Southerns to drain all "lawful means" that would result from school desegregation. It marked a moment of southern defiance against the Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka decision that determined to separate school facilities for black and white school children were unequal. -
SNCC founded
On February 1, 1960 a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolsworth's lunch counter where they had been denied service based on their race. This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the south. This was important during the civil rights era because it formed a nonviolent protest brought SNCC to national attention throwing a harsh public light on racism in the South. -
March on Washington
In this event more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C for a political rally known as the March on Washington in search for Jobs and Freedom. This was organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups. It was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. It also became a key in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States. -
16th street bombing (Birmingham,Al)
On september 15 1963,a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. A church with mostly black congregation that served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. Four young girls were killed and many other people were injured. Shock over the incident and the violent meet between the protesters and th police it helped draw national attention to the hard fought, often dangerous struggle for civil rights for African Americans. -
24th amendment passes
It gave a right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. -
MLK assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Civil Rights leader who fought for blacks rights. He was shot while standing on the balcony outside his second story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. Mr.King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. We celebrate January 19 in memory of him. -
Murder in Mississippi
James Chaney ,Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were killed near Philadelphia. They had been working to register black voters during Freedom of Summer and also had gone to investigate the burning of a black church. They were arrested by the police and got charges, after a few hours the young men's were released after dark into the hands of the KKK who beat and murder them. This was important because their deaths outraged the nation and helped so Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This Act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It's considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. It was first proposed by President John F. Kennedy , it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor and Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Black Panthers founded
The Black Panthers were formed in Oakland California in1966 by Heuy Newton and Bobby Seale they played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement , they belived in self defense. They practice militiant self defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.
