Civil Rights Movement

By Freako124

  • Brown Vs Board

    By the mid-twentieth century, civil rights groups set up legal and political, challenges to racial segregation. In the early 1950s, NAACP lawyers brought class action lawsuits on behalf of black schoolchildren, seeking court orders to let black students attend white public schools.

  • Murder of Emmett

    While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. This event Showed many that racism is going a little too far.

  • Rosa parks Arrest

    Arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Which started boycotting of public busses

  • The Montgomery Bus Boycott

    African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, it is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S..

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    This new act stated that Colored people have the equal right.

  • Temple Bombing

    Fifty sticks of dynamite at the entrance way at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation also known as "the Temple." No people were hurt or killed, but the blast shook the city's confidence and rattled its composure. These brash actions show another reason why racism laws should be put in place.