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Brown vs board of education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
The case of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was 14 and he was murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman only four days before, later on, the woman spoke up saying it was false. this case brought up brutal the Jim Crow laws were to african-americans. -
Rosa Parks
Sparks the Montgomery Bus Boycott the started later that year -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement. -
The Little Rock Nine
Nine African American students enrolled at the formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock. -
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The Freedom Riders Pt1
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists (made up of African Americans and White Americans) who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions, they sat on buses together with at least one black rider would sit in the front, they ate at restaurants together and ignored segregation signs when using toilets and drinking fountains. Whenever they got arrested...continued Pt2 -
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The Freedom Riders Pt2
Continued from Pt1, ...and thrown in prison, they would sing freedom songs to continue their protest, sometimes being set free because the authorities couldn't stand the singing. -
The March On Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial,