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Plessy v. Ferguson
Court ruled that that there could be separate things that are for different people, but, they different equipment must be equal. -
NAACP is Formed
W.E.B. duBois, Jane Addams, and a few others formed a group to help gain equal rights for African Americans. NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancements of Colored People. -
Baseball is integrated
Jackie Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He paved the way for other athletes and sports to allow integration. -
Military Intergration
In an executive order, President Truman ordered integration of all units of all the armed forces. Blacks and Whites now fought side by side. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
"Seperate but equal" was said to have no place in schools. Linda Brown would have had to have gone to a school a long distance from her house when there was a school close by, had it not been for that decision. -
Murder of Emmett Till
A fourteen year old boy was murdered for getting caught "flirting" with a white girl. A linch mob formed and killed him. -
Bus Boycotts in Montegomery
After Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white man, many people boycotted or refused to use the Montgomery bus system until things changed. -
Little Rock Nine
First nine African American high schoolers to attend what used to be an all white high school. The governer tried to stop them from attending,but, the president stepped in and allowed the students to go to school. -
Greensboro Sit-in
Four African Americans calmly sit down at a diner to protest the diner being for whites only. -
Freedom Rides
Thirteen people, six whites and seven African Americans, tested the ruling that segragation on interstate highways is illegal. They integrated many bus stations before they were attacked in Alabama. -
Birmingham Children's March Begins
In Birmingham Alabama, thousand of African Americans peacefully marched. Many of those people were children, who had walked out of school. They were met with electric cattle prods, fire hoses, and dogs controlled by the police. -
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Birmingham Children's March
In Birmingham Alabama, thousand of African Americans peacefully marched. Many of those people were children, who had walked out of school. They were met with electric cattle prods, fire hoses, and dogs controlled by the police. -
March on Washington
250000 citizens peacefullu marched through Washington D.C. to show support for the civil rights bill. This is when Dr. Matin Luther King Jr. gave the I Have A Dream speech. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson pushed congress to pass the bill, after Kennedy was assassinated. This act made all public acts of descrimination or segregation illegal. -
Malcolm X is murdered
Malcom X was a member of the Nation of Islam. He eventually rejected the groups idea of seperation from the whites entirely. He wanted to make African Americans equal to whites. He was shot to death by three members of the Nation of Islam. -
Selma March to Montgomery
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a march in selma to protest voting rights after three people were murdered after trying to vote. The people were attacked by the police. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The act banned literacy tests and other barriers they faced while trying to vote. It also allowed federal officers to register voters directly in states where discrimination was still common. -
Watts Riots
In a dominantly African American area of Los Angeles, many African Americans burned police cars and looted stores to show their anger of what they saw of police being so brutal. Over 1000 people were killed or injured.
