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Plessy vs Fergusson
In 1890, Louisiana passed a law requiring railroads to provide "equal but seperate accomidations for white and balck colored races". One day, Homer A. Plessy bought a first class ticket but under Louisiana state law had to sit in the "blacks only" boxcar even though he was 7/8 white and 1/8 balck decent. -
NAACP founded
During its early years, the NAACP focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Eight-year old Linda Brown charges the board of Education of Topeka, Kansas with violating Linda's rights by denying her admission to an all white elementary school four blocks from her house. The nearest school for black people was 21 blocks away. -
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Montomery Bus Boycott
During the 1950s, black people had to sit at the back of the bus called the "colored only section". Even when the white people brgan filling up the buses, some black people had to stand up or get off the bus. Rosa Parks went again that idea when she did not gie up her seat to a white man when the bus was filling up with white people. She was arrested. As the news spread rapidly, E. D. Nixon and Jo Ann Robinson decided to hold these bus boycotts. -
Little rock School of integration
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine high school students. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis where students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school. -
Greensbro, North Carolina sit ins
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. African Americans were only allowed to sit at their tables while white people were only allowed to sit wherever they liked. Black Collage students staged a sit in at a whites only counter. -
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MArch on Birmingham, Alabama
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march on washington
250,000 people including 75,000 whites converged in the nations capitol to listed to speakers demand the immediete passage of the civil rights bill. Martin Luthor King Jr. gave his "I have a dream speach" appealing for peace and equality. -
24th Ammendment
Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
After the assasination of John F. Kennedy, his sucessor, Lydon B. Johnson, pledged to carry on the presidents work. This act prohibited discrimination of race, religion national origin, and gender giving citizens the right to enter libraries, parks, washrooms, resteraunts theatres and other public accominadations. -
March from Selma to Montomery for Voting Rights
The SCLC conducted a major voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama SNCC had been working for two years to register voters. King announced a 50-mile protest from Selma to Montgomery. they were attacked. On March 21, the march started up again but with federal protection. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
