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Malcolm X (fun fact)
Malcolm X wasen't such a great child. he was convicted of burglery and sent to prision for 6 years. In prision is when he started to educate himself and become the man he was. and The X is a symbol of his Aftican ansestors who were enslaved. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Colored people stopped using the bus system to get to work. Rosa parks refused to get out of her seat for a white man and she was arrested for it. The african americans refused to use the bus system and they found their own way to work such as carpooling or even walked to work. -
Civil rights act of 1957
this right was to protect african americans to vote. Eisenhower felt strongly about the right to vote, even though several sothern senators tried to stop the civil right of 1957 -
Little Rock 9
Little Rock Arkansa won a court order requiring 9 African American students be admitted to Centeral High, a school with 2,000 white students. The govenor of Arkanksas ordereed troops to not let the 9 students in. Eisenthower knew he couldn't let Faubus defy the national law. Eisenhower ordered 1,000 soldiers to let these students in. -
The Sit-in Movement
4 young african americans sat in a whites only resturant on February 1 1960. they were refused service at the white counter and they sat there everyday until they were given the same service as the white customers. the next day 29 african students arrived at Woolsworth's sit-in counter. by the end of the week their were 300 students taking part. by 1961sit-ins had been held in more than 100 cities. -
Freedom Riders.
in May the freedom riders boarded sever southbound interstate buses. the Mob slit the busses tires and threw rocks at the windows, in Anniston someone threw a firebomb, In Birmingham t he riders emerged from a bus to face a gang of young men armed with bats, chains, and pipes. The KKK beat them up badly -
James Meredith and the Desegregation of the University of Mississippi
Ross Barnett the govenor of Mississippi was blocking Meredith's way to register for collage. Meredith had a court order saying for him to be registered there. Kennedy dispatched 500 federal marshals to escort meredith to the campus. A angry white mob attacked the campus. the fight happened all night by morning 160 marshals were injured and kennedy sent several thousand troops to campus. -
Protest in Birmingham
King decided to launch demonstations in Birmingham, knowing he would get a violence response. King was later arrested. Bull Connor responded with force, and ordered police to ue cluns, poloce dogs, and high pressure hoses on demonstators. -
March on Washington
200,000 demonstartors of all races flocked to the nation's captial. The audience heard speeches, sang hyms, and songs. Dr. King gave a powerful speech. -
Civil rights act of 1964
the House of Represenatives passed a bill 290 to 130. senate finally voted and ended in a margin of 71 to 29. Bill was passed on July 2 1964. this beill gave federal government the broad power to prvent racial discrimination in a number of areas. The law made segergatio illegal. -
the Selma March
Selma, Alabama was selected as the focal point for their campaign for voting rights. Jim Clark the Sheriff had deputized and armed dozens of white citizens to prevent them to register to vote. December 1964 King won and Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Jim Clark ordered these people to rush them and they did many african americans were beaten its known as "bloody Sunda". -
voting rights of 1965
this act authorized the U.S attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters, bypass local officals who often refused to register African Americans. The law also suspended discriminatory devices, such as literacy test. -
King is Assassinated
Dr. King was shot and killed by a sniper. He was in Memphis , Tennessee to support a strike of african american sanitattion workers in MArch 1968. He was suppose to lead the "Poor people's Campaign"
