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Brown v. Board of education
Plessy V. Ferguson allowed separate but equal facilities
Brown vs. board of education was filled against Topeka Kansas school board for denied access to Olivier brown to go the public school there.
The supreme court outlawed segregated schools was the result of the brown vs. board -
Emmett Till murdered
Money, Mississippi. Emmett till a 14 year old african boy was flirting with a white women. Two white men took him after that and beat him to death then threw him in the river where three days later they found his corpse. -
Rosa parks arrested for not giving up her bus seat
Rosa Parks a black woman refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and was arrested and fined 10$. Located in Montgomery, Alabama -
Montgomery bus boycott
Montgomery, Alabama. 4 days after Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man the boycott began. The boycott was where blacks wouldn't ride the bus in montgomery and lasted 381 days. -
Willie Edwards Jr killed by klansmen
Montgomery, Alabama. One night Willie Edwards was driven onto a bridge by four white KKK members that were going to make him pay for saying something offensive to a white woman. They pointed a gun at him and said jump in water so he did.Three months later two fishermen found his decomposed body and the men were never punished. -
civil rights act of 1957
president Eisenhower signed the civil rights act of 1957 into law on September 9, 1957
It gave African Americans the right to vote. -
Events at little rock, Arkansas
Governor Fabus ordered the Arkansas national guard to prevent the african American students from entering the school. President Eisenhower met with Govenor Fabus and told him to remove the national guard and he did. The black students entered the school and a riot broke out with lots of violence. Then Eisenhower sent 1,000 army paratroopers to protect the african students. -
Attack of the freedom riders
People who rode buses in segergated south areas to challenge the surpreme court. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organzed the freedom riders. Whites joined the freedom riders too. -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
Chaos broke out on campus and riots ending in two dead, hundreds wonded and many arrested. Kennedy called out 31,000 national guardsmen to enforce order. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist and field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi. In his driveway outside his home he was shot in the back. -
The March on Washington
purpose was for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther king jr's i have a dream speach was delivered and was a spirted call for racial justice and equailty. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Congress passed this law. It forbids discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
March to Selma
It was organized in efforts to register black voters in the south. They were met by violent resintence by state and local authorites. Result was 300 out of 15,000 in selma manged to register. King won the Nobel peace Prize. -
Congress passes voting act of 1965
Washington D.C. It banned the use of literacy tests of voter registration in areas where 50% of the nonwhite population had not registered to vote. And authorized U.S attorney general to investigate the use of poll taxes in state and local elections. Also gave blacks their right to vote. -
Thurgood Marshall First Black Supreme Court Justice
Before he was Supreme court justice he was a counsel for NAACP and won many cases to fight against racism. It was a monumental moment because he was the first black supreme court justice and won brown vs board of education case where the supreme court ended racial segregation in public schools. -
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. It wa such a big impact to people because he was a role model and was there leader to getting blacks there civil rights.
