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Plessy V Ferguson
The Court's “separate but equal” decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois. -
Brown v Board
the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. -
Emmett TIll Murder
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, on August 24, 1955, when he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. The men were tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, which began a chain reaction of similar boycotts throughout the South. -
Crisis in Little Rock
Although skeptical about integrating a former white-only institution, the nine students arrived at Central High School on September 3, 1957 looking forward to a successful academic year. Instead they were greeted by an angry mob of white students, parents, and citizens determined to stop integration. In addition to facing physical threats, screams, and racial slurs from the crowd, Arkansas Governor Orval M. Faubus intervened, ordering the Arkansas National Guard to keep the nine African American -
Sit-In
Sit-in's made African-American people who they're today because if sit-in wouldn't born in February 1st in 1960, the world would stay the same for African-American people. Sit-in waa a process that took three to four African-American people to create a scene that wouldn't tolerate any violence. Sit-In was part of a process where they would sit down in a cafeteria and wait to be served. -
Freedom riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960). -
1967 race riot
In the early morning hours of July 23, 1967, one of the worst riots in U.S. history breaks out on 12th Street in the heart of Detroit’s predominantly African-American inner city. By the time it was quelled four days later by 7,000 National Guard and U.S. Army troops, 43 people were dead, 342 injured, and nearly 1,400 buildings had been burned -
The Civil Rights Act
President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1968. President John F. Kennedy formally signed the Civil Rights Act before his death.
