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Plessy vs Fergusson
In 1892, Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car. He was brought before Judge John H. Ferguson of the Criminal Court for New Orleans. http://www.history.com/ -
The Murder of Emmett TIll
On August 24, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till reportedly flirted with a white cashier in Money, Mississippi. Four days later, two white men tortured and murdered Till. His murder galvanized the emerging Civil Rights Movement. http://www.history.com/ -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. http;//www.history.com/ -
The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. http://www.history.com/ -
Greensboro Four
On February 1, 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina four A&T freshman students, Ezell Blair, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond walked downtown and sat in the whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's. They refused to leave when denied service and stayed until the store closed. -
The murder of Medgar Evers
In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, an African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by a white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. A supremacist is an advocate of the supremacy of a particular group, especially one determined by race or sex. Or relating to or advocating supremacy of a particular group. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church as church members prepared for Sunday services. The racially motivated attack killed four young girls and shocked the nation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting RIght's Act of 1965
The Voting Right's Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African-Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. -
The Bakke Case and Affirmative Action
In the late 1970's, federal affirmative action programs are under attack in higher education. After a decade in practice, the police have doubled the number of black students attending colleges and universities.
