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Brown vs. the Board of Education
Kansas' representative/plaintiff was Oliver Brown. He claimed that because recently segregated schools violated the Constitutions equal protection clause because black schools were never equal to white schools. Racial segregation of children in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment " knows they shall make or enforce any law which shall... Deny to person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." -
Emmet Till Murdered
He was a 14-year-old boy from Chicago. He was be in shot in the head and thrown into the Tallahatchile River because he was sold at a white woman. His mom had an open casket funeral because she wanted people to see what they had done to her son. The picture of his bloated and mutilated face was seeing around the United States and sparked civil rights movement. At first the two white murders were not found guilty but confessed a few months later. -
Rosa Park
She was a 42-year-old seamstress and member of NAACP. She said just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites, when the best most full she was told to give Percy for white man, she refused. She was arrested and convicted for violating the Jim Crow laws. Because of her there was a bus boycott. 75% of bus riders were black and the buses/ trains couldn't lose all that money so they integrated buses and trains. -
Little Rock Desegregation
Nine black students attempted to integrate Central high school in Little Rock Arkansas. On the first day of school there was mob of white people in front of the school. Gov. Orval fabus had Arkansas's national guard outside not allowing the students in. Fabus close all for public high schools because he didn't want desegregation but the Supreme Court made him reopen them. -
Greensboro sin-ins
Four African-American men went to a restaurant and sat at a whites only lunch counter. They ordered coffee in that were denied service. They sat quietly impolitely until the restaurant closed. This sparked sit-ins all over the south. -
Freedom Riders
13 black and white civil rights activist rode a series of bus trips through the south to protest segregation. They were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality, a United States civil rights group. The blacks tried to use white only bathrooms and lunch counters and vice versa. An angry mom follow the first bus and when the tires blew out, a bomb was thrown onto the bus and burst into flames as everyone got off only to be beaten. -
Medgar Evers assassinated
He joined the NAACP, was a field worker and a civil rights leader. He was shot by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith was on trial for the murder, the jury was all white and it ended in a deadlock. A second or white trial failed to make a decision and Beckwith was set free. Three decades later the case was reopened and Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison as 73 -
Civil Rights Act
After the Civil War there were amendments that made former slaves citizens but in this so they use pulled taxes in literacy test. Enforced strict segregation through Jim Crow laws. After many days the act was finally passed. After it was passed segregation based on race and religion was banned. Minorities couldn't be denied service based on the color of their skin. -
Margin Luther King Junior assassination
Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader, a Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s. He was standing on the second floor balcony of a motel and was shot in the neck. He died at age 39.