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Brown v. Board of Education
1) Plessy v. Fergususon case.
2) When the Plessy v. Ferguson decision was made to allow separate but equal public facilities.
3) The fall of segragation -
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat
1) Rosa parks, a 42 year old seamstress, refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, and was convicted of violating segregation laws.
2) This event helped start the Bus Boycott, which lasted over a year, until the Supreme Court ruled Bus Segregation unconstitutional. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
1) President Eisenhower
2) It established the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department, and empowered federal officials to prosecute individuals that conspired to deny or abridge another citizens right to vote. It also created a six-member U.S. Civil Rights Commission charged with investigating allegations of voter infringement. -
Little Rock, Arkansas
1) Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent 9 African American students from enrolling at Central High School because Central High was an all white school.
2) Eisenhower ordered troops to Central High to protect the students and each student got their own personal guard to follow them around and make sure they would not get hurt. -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
1) Freeadom Riders would go on a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.
2) The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
3) White Civil Rights Activists were also in the Freedom Riders. -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
1) Chaos broke out on the college campus, with the riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested. 2) Kennedy and to call out 31,000 national guardsmen to keep order. -
Birmingham Police attack
1) Took place in Birmingham.
2) Police were shooting African American children with high pressure hoses, and attacking them with dogs. -
George Wallace
1) Took place in Alabama
2) Alabama's Governor, George Wallace, was strictly against desegregation of schools and stopped black students from attending the university. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
1) An African American Civil Rights activist and was the NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi.
2) He had many threats told to him since he was the most visible civil rights leader in the state, and he was shot to death in June 1963. -
The March on Washington
1) 200,000 Americans started a rally because they wanted their Freedom and Jobs.
2) Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Virgil Lamar Ware
1) Took place in Birmingham
2) Two sixteen year old boys stopped three African American teenager's taking their paper routes. The boys wanted to scare them but ended up shooting and killing 13 year old Ware -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1) President Lyndon Johnson
2) The law banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
March to Selma
1) It was one of the places in the South that looked down upon African Americans voting, with only two percent of of eligible black voters being able to register.
2) They were met with violent resistance.
3) The march helped raise awareness of how hard it was for black people to vote in the South. -
Willie Brewster
1) Took place in Anniston, Alabama
2) Brewster was shot and killed while driving home from work with his friends because of the color of his skin, and the man that killed him was the first man to be convicted by an all white jury. -
Benjamin Brown
1) Took place in Jackson Mississippi.
2) A 20 year old civil rights worker, Benjamin Brown, was shot in the back by police during a local student protest near Jackson State College. -
Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice
1) He was the legal council for the NAACP.
2) He was the first black person to serve in the Supreme court, showing whites that he could do it just as well as them and this also signaled how much America was really changing. -
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
1) MLK was shot dead while he was standing on his balcony, this prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths.
2) He had helped the process of desegregation so much that with him being killed, it made both blacks and whites mad.
