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Brown vs Board of Education
Supreme Court make segregation in public schools illegal, which effectively cancelled the belief in Plessy vs Ferguson. Chief Justice Earl Warren aslo notes that to segregate children simply because of their race, generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." -
Emmett Louis Till
Emmett Louis Till was murdered at the age of 14 for reportedly flirting with a white woman. Tills killers, Roy Bryant adn his half brohter J.W. Milam were charged with the murder of Emmett Till, but then excused because people figured that it 'didn't matter'. A few years later both Bryant and Milam admitted to killing the young boy in an interview. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The arrest of Rosa Parsks for not giving up her seat for a white person. This then sparked a protest against segregation between African Americans and whites on buses.
Rosa Parks said that she was thinking of the young Emmett Till while she did this. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott ends
On December 21, 1956, the Montgomery Bus Boycott wins, when the city finnaly announced that it would be holding a November Supreme Court trial to make segregation between both rases illegal on public transport. -
The Little Rock Nine
A group of nine Africa American students (more famously known as The Little Rock Nine), were rejected from their school, Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, simply because of their race.
This event happend during the time of schools being segregated, which was an important part of the American Civil RIghts Movement. The small group refused to give into this act fo segregation, so they marched towards the school. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 passed
On the 9th of September, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower passed a law that sarted the Civil Rights programme.This included the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Freedom Riders aressted
During 1961, the Freedom Riders took place, even though they are well known in the CIvil Rights history, it wasn't the first time that segregation in transprt was challenged in the South. -
Elijah Muhammad
63 year old Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Muslims, held his first press conference in 30 years, to request a seperate area for African Americans to live in a seperate area from the white community. -
Medgar Evers
On the 19th of June, 1963, Medgar Evers was unfortunatly murdered. She was an NAACP field secutary in Jackson, Mississippi. Evers was involved in the Montgomery Boycott campaign, this is what got him involved in the institution in 1962. Weeks leading up to his death, Evers recieved several threats. Since he was involved in the Emmett Till murder case and was a supporter Clyde Kennard, which left him suseptable to these sorts of threats. -
A meeting at the White House
President John F. Kennedy and other civil rights leaders have a meeting at the White House to try and cancle the March on Washington, which was supposed to happen during August. -
March on Washington
Over a quater of a million people came to help support the march, as well as to hear Martin Luther King Jr give his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech. -
Church bombing
A church in Birmingham was bombed killing four African American girls that were in Sunday school. Their names were: Denise McNair, (age 11), and Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Adie Mae Collins who were all 14 years of age. -
President Kennedy's death
Much to everyones horror, on Novemer 22nd, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Just two days after this tragic event. Kennedy's alleged assailant, Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot. Then Vice President Lyndon Johnson becomes president. -
Nobel Peace Prize
Martin Luther King was presented the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. He accepted this award on behalf of the Civil Movement. King was given this award for his amazing leadership with the Civil RIghts movement and his outstanding commitment to racial justice through nonviolent action. -
N.O.W
NOW stands for the National Organisation of Women. This organisation was formed to fight for political equality between both sexes.
