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Plessy v. Ferguson
30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy was able to pass as a white man if he felt like it. This made a difference in the nation because not a lot of people would take a stand at this time and for plessy to do that it encourgaed others to do the same. -
Brown v. Board of Education
they made open doors of education to all students. With court orders and active enforcement of federal civil rights laws, progress toward integrated schools. -
Murder of Emmett Till
On August 24, 1955, Emmett Till was reported for flirting with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. It made many african American furious to know that this happened to an innocent young man. which caused more of Black people to stand up and fight.
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Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined and the boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days. -
Founding of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & Martin Luther King
This was an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the recently concluded Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. The main goal was to pick up where MLK left off and make sure the dream does come true. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/southern-christian-leadership-conference-1957#sthash.YIGPub56.dpuf -
Little Rock Nine & Central High School
9 black students enrolled at an all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. -
Greensboro Sit-In
They sat down at the store's "whites only" lunch counter and ordered coffee, and were denied service, ignored and then asked to leave. They stayed seated at the counter until the store closed early at 5 p.m. The four friends immediately returned to campus and recruited others for the cause. -
Freedom Ride/Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961. This was an impact because it was all over the newspapers which encouraged other african americans to stand up and take action. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) & Freedom Summer
White local and state officials systematically kept blacks from voting through formal methods, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, and through cruder methods of fear and intimidation. -
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans untied in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Civil Rights Act (1964)
The Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. When this happened many of the southern men hated it, did they all follow this act, no. but the more enforcement was made the more people started to accpet it. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. -
Voting Rights Act (1965)
It aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote. -
Assassination of MLK
He was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black Americans
