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Plessy V Ferguson
This dealt with racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". To inforce this law the president had to send in the national guard to protect black students entering the schools. -
NAACP
NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A black civil rights organization in the US. Created by Mary White Ovington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and MoorField Storey in 1909. This orginzation had the same idea and goals as the civil rights movements. They have accomplished things like eliminating employment barriers for formerly incarcerated people, and advancing effective law enforcement. -
Brown v Board
In this case the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. This wasnt effective right away because the government didnt give it enough force at first. -
Emmett TIll Murder
Emmett was a 14 year old boy who was reportedly flirting with a white woman inside a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. A few days later 2 white men kidnapped and shot Emmett in the head. The all white male jury acquitted them. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
MLK jr created bus boycott in 1955, that contained a chain of similar boycotts in the southern states. Finally The Supreme Court voted to end segregated on busing in 1965. -
Crisis in Little Rock
Is when black students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school. President Eisenhower had to make things happen in order for this to be enforced in southern states. -
Sit In's
In North Carolina, 4 students from North Carolina A&T sit in at a all white lunch counter and ask to be served non violantly. This lead and ignites a wave of student sit-ins and protests that flash like fire across the South. -
The Freedom Riders
White and Black activists who took regular non charter buses into segregated southern areas in the US from May-December of 1961. Following this event things like the decisions of Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia in 1946 came very popular and an important descion leading the riders troubles. This was effective in some southern states. -
Integration of Ole Miss
Lots of riots began to erupted at Ole Miss in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school -
The Birmingham Movement (Campaign)
An important movement created in 1963 by the SCLC to bring forth a lot of needed attention to integration efforts of African Americans in Alabama (Birmingham). Martin Luther King was arrested in this process. It became affective because it changed the way things functioned. -
Freedom Summer
a volunteering campaign in the United States to try to register as many African American voters as in Mississippi as possible. Which before hand had historically excluded most blacks from voting. -
CIvil Rights Act
Which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This law ended segregation and banned employment discrimination. -
Race RIots in Detroit
<a href='' >http://detroit1701.org/Start1967Riot.html</a> Detroit police raided a "blind pig" at this location expecting to find a few people violating the law by drinking in an unlicensed establishment. When they entered around 3 AM they discovered a crowd of 60 or more celebrating the return of servicemen from Vietnam. Police officers held the arrested individuals on 12th street for some time before police wagons took them away for booking and then their release.
