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Jim Crow Laws
These laws were made during Reconstruction. They said that blacks could not associate themselves with any white folk such as use the same bathrooms, live in the same towns, or even go to the same schools. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
This case stated that places for white people and black people could be "separate but equal". -
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
This riot started because a white man caused a black person to drown. Therefore, the confrontations between the police and civilians were hostile, and 38 people lost their lives while more than 500 more were injured. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This case was a follow up of the Plessy v. Ferguson case. This stated that the "separate but equal" phrase does not relate in the sense of education. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was when Rosa Parks decided not to give up her seat to a white man, therefore, she was arrested. This sparked a 381 day boycott where African Americans used only taxis, or carpooled, or even walked instead of using the bus. -
Murder of Emmett TIll
Emmett Till was a fourteen year old boy who had reportedly whistled at a white shop keeper's wife, therefore, the husband and his brother kidnapped him and killed him. They weighed him down in the water, so when he was found he looked very disfigured and mutilated. This sparked the US civil rights movement. -
Bloody Sunday
A civil rights movement where 600 demonstrators did the Selma to Montgomery march to protest the killing of black civil rights activist by a white police officer. AS the people got closer tot he Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Alabama state police was there and stopped them but they refused. Therefore, the police beat and teargassed the protesters as they were moving forward. -
Fair Housing Act
This act, days after King's assassination, became the law that prevent housing discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, and religion.
