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Formation of the NAACP
NAACP was formed after the "Springfield riot" and was the most widely recognized civil rights organization and led important campaigns for equal opportunity and conducting voter mobilization. -
Formation of the Congress of Racial Equality
"CORE", was the leading activist organization during the early Civil Rights Movement and were responsible for the "Freedom Rides" to desegregate public facilities.
The Organization launched a series of initiatives which led to further desegregation. -
Desegregation of the military
President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order, in which the army was integrated and desegregated. -
Brown v Board of Education (1952-1954
Supreme Court case against the Board of Education of Topeka, in which Linda Brown was not allowed to go to the closer elementary school, only because she was not white.
Resulted in realization that "Separate but Equal" actually was, in fact, not equal at all. -
Murder of Emmett Till
In Mississippi, 14-year-old African American from Chicago was brutally murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman.
This event was important because it made people realize how unfairly the white treated the blacks. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students who, as a test of Brown v. Board of Education, tried to enroll in an "all-white" high school called Little Rock High School, although were blocked by the national guard called by Governor Orval Faubus.
The students got attention like they purposed to do, and were eventually let into the school after President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. -
Sit-Ins
Sit-Ins were a type of civil right act and which initiated after a couple of African American college students went to "Woolsworth's store", an all-white lunch counter in North Carolina to order coffee, but were denied. Instead of walking away, they patiently waited quietly and refused to leave when they were asked.
Many were arrested but made an immediate impact which resulted in Woolsworth's as well as other establishments to change their segregation policies. -
Freedom Riders
African American civil rights activists who bussed throughout segregated southern America as a protest against segregated bus terminals.
They also tried to use "all-white" restrooms and lunch counters in bus stations, and were often met with violence from white protestors.
The group succeeded and drew international attention just like they purposed to do. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964-1965)
There was employment discrimination against race, color, religion sex or national origin, and was therefore stopped by the government through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, proposed by John F. Kennedy and later signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson.
It resulted in the desegregation of public places as well as the banning of employment discrimination. -
Martin Luther King Assassination
The well known civil rights leader, known for his "I have a Dream" speech (08-28-1963), was assassinated on room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead while in the hospital. -
Boston Busing (1974-1988)
The Boston public schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. Ruth Batson and other NAACP members met with the Boston School Committee while 300 blacks protested against segregation in the Boston public-school system.
Eventually resulted in the desegregation of public schools in Boston.
