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1954: Brown v Board of Education
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1957: Little Rock 9
9 African American students enrolled in the school, and this causes lots of riots by students and parents and the national guard was sent in. They had to take extra precautions to protect the black students. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
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Freedom Riders
They took bus rides to Southern States to protest. They used white only places and the whites used the black only places and that was how they protested. They would go to jail in droves and they refused to pay bail. They were trying to ban segregation in all transportation as well as rest places and diners and bathrooms. -
Birmingham Protests
It was a really segregated place and they chose it to protest because of that. They did sit-ins. It was one of the first tactical decisions made because they knew that if Birmingham was desegregated that all of the other heavily segregated cities would quickly follow. -
March on Washington
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Freedom Summer
Voter registration designed to get black votes in Mississippi. A very low level of black voters. Northern white students banded together with black southern students to fight for black voting rights. 3 students were murdered during this, and eventually a law was passed that banned racial segregation in voting -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended discrimination against pretty much everything. -
Selma Marches
Gained a lot of support for the movement. The black people were beaten by cops and police dogs. They tried again with even more people as well as white people and different races -
Voting Rights Act
Ended discrimination against black people in voting. Bans the literacy test. -
MLK Assassinated
MLK was assassinated