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Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court decision ruling that public establishments have to be seperate but equal -
NAACP formed
Was formed to create political, social, educational, and econimic equality. -
Brown v. Board of education
Supreme court ordered school segregration unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till Murder
14 year old boy flirted with a white grocery store cashier
couple days later, 2 white men kidnapped and murdered him. the men were never convicted. -
Montgomery bus boycott
Protest against racial sefgregration on public transportation, by not using public transport. -
Crisis at little Rock!
Students from the little rock nine, who where all african american students who enrolled to Little Rock Highschool in Arkansas, were prevented from entering the racially segregrated school by the governer of Arkansas, Orval Faubus. -
Sit in's
students from north carolina sit at a white only food counter at a diner and ask to be served. People didnt like that so they started to harass them and throw stuff at them. -
Freedom riders
Civil Rights Activists rode on interstate buses in through the south to end segregration on busses. -
Integration of ole miss
Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi from students, staff, and locals; because of a veteran airforce pilot who was an african american attempted to regester in an all white university. -
MLK Jr Marches in Burmingham
Dangerous march in a racially divided city in alabama which ended in a bombing and police dogs and fire hoses injuring many people. -
Freedom Summer
Volunteer campain to gain voting rights for african americans in Mississippi. -
Civil rights act
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, nationality, or gender. -
Detroit Race riots
also called the 12th street riots consisted of looting arson and even sniping which started on Saturday night and continued in through the early morning and all through the week on the 27th. The result was 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. -
Civil rights act of 1968
Provided Equal housing opportunities regardless of race or national origin and made it into a federal crime to threaten, force injure, intimidate or interfere with anyone because of their race, color, or national origin.
