civil rights events

  • jackie robinson intergrates major league basball

    jackie robinson intergrates major league basball
    jackie robinson intergrates mlb in 1948 for the brooklyn dogers he was the first aferican american to intergrate base ball
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    civil rights events

  • brown V.S board of education

    brown V.S board of education
    brown v.s board of education was a law to make schools seperate but equal
  • montgomery bus boycott

    montgomery bus boycott
    it was the setting stone for the whole civil rights movements
    african americans refused to ride the buses
    made the transportation economy to be low
    who was involvment- mia mongomery improvement ass, and the naacp.
  • emmitt till murder

    emmitt till murder
    14 year ikd black kid
    from the north
    whistled at a white woman from the south
    the woman told her husband
    murded him the mom of emit had a open casket to show what they have done to him they could only identify him by a pinki ring
  • intergration of little rock hifh school (little rock nine)

    intergration of little rock hifh school (little rock nine)
    military escorts had to be put in place to protect the blacks from getting killed it took almost 10 years to imigrate the highschool the president had to send in federal marshels to help
  • sit-ins

    sit-ins
    wouldnt let black sit at the counter and eat
    they sat and wouldnt move many got hot coffy spilt on them police would take three out and three more would come in and sit they had practice to ignor racial slurs and torment
  • freedom rides

    freedom rides
    civil rights activists foing in to the north to the south orginized by (core) they would not move were they were soupost to when entering the south the (kkk) set many buses of fire in front of police and they wouldnt do anything sent the army to protect the freedom riders
  • intergration of ole miss

    intergration of ole miss
    president sent fredral mashels to protect james maridith who was the first black collage student to join. 4 years laterhe was shot
  • birmingham marches

    birmingham marches
    was a mixture of sitins boycotts the blacks would not move thus sent the police to ues dogs fire hoeses and police burtality the whole united states at this time had t.vs and was watching this happen and they saw this and thought this was not right
  • Freedom Summer and the Murder of 3 Civil Rights Workers

    Freedom Summer and the Murder of 3 Civil Rights Workers
    voter registration drive and a sheriff and a deputy the FBI responded because they new no one would be tried only the deputy sheriff got tried and the sheriff got off the hook the deputy got jailed for 7-15 years they were burried in a earth dam it took several weeks in till they found them.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    Martin Luther King and 20,000 people attended to MLK speach the speach was I Have A Dream Speech also many that had memories of family member that was killed by the whites it was irronic that after this speach the predsident jfk was assasinated VP took office and started to pass the civil rights movement and he said it was what jfk wanted
  • the assasination of Mdgar Evers

    the assasination of Mdgar Evers
    was the secatary of naacp
    he was shot in the back while walking up to his house were his 2 children whitness the murder
    the (kkk)was involved went to court but had two dead locks the person was finaly caught after 31 years later
  • 16TH Street Church bombings

    16TH Street Church bombings
    it was a black church it was not the first bommbing there was 3
    4 girls getting ready for sunday school was killed
    the bombing was the oppisite of what the kkk was planing to do the FBI found the kkk responisble fort the bommbings one person got a rested for the bommbing. the daughter of the guy admited what he did and whittness the boming
  • Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
    passed the 13th, 14th and 15th admendment was to pass a law to ban any segergation in a school and any public places in race creed color religon gender sexual orintation or ricive tax dollars
  • Selma Marches

    Selma Marches
    Martin Luther King point was to make voting equal so they marched the marched to get the right vote took 3 days to get to Mongomery they finaly three years later got the right to vote
  • Passsage of Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Passsage of Voting Rights Act of 1965
    out lawed the test that they made blacks take to vote bannded states from not letting blacks to vote in 1954 federal mashels was sent in to see that they were not making the blacks from not voting