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Plessy V Ferguson
Plessy V Ferguson was a case argued in the United States Supreme Court to require racial segregation in public places. They used the doctrine "separate but equal”. It was overturned in 1954. -
Brown v Board
Brown v Board was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws to establish separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v Ferguson decision of 1896. The Plessy v Ferguson which held that segregated public facilities were constitutional so long as the black and white facilities were equal to each other. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett was a fourteen-year-old boy who went to Mississippi to visit his family. While he was there he was reported for flirting with a white women at a grocery store. A few days later, two white men kidnapped him, 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 which started a chain reaction throughout the South. In 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing. Blacks resisted to move to the back of the bus. -
Crisis in Little Rock
The Crisis in Little Rock was where armed troops blocked African Americans from going to school. The governor ordered the National Guard prevented African Americans from enrolling at Central High School. Central High School was an all-white school. The 1955 decision ordered that public schools be desegregated with all deliberate speed. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders was a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. In September 1961, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued regulations prohibiting segregation in bus and train stations nationwide -
Integration of Ole Miss (University of Mississippi)
An African-American man named James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi.Chaos briefly broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested. -
MLK Jr. Marches in Birmingham
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Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer organized a voter registration drive that aimed to increased voter registration in Mississippi. The KKK and the police carried out series of violent attacks and the murder of at least three civil rights activists. -
Civil RIghts Act
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1967 Race Riots
The Detroit Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan in the summer of 1967 was one of the most violent urban revolts. It came as an immediate response to police brutality but underlying conditions including segregated housing and schools and rising black unemployment helped drive the anger of the rioters. -
Civil Rights act of 1968
Fair Housing Act–prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex
