Civil Rights Movement Lily Howe

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. Brown v. Board of Education
2. Washington D.C.
3. After schools had been caught denying admission to African American students, the Supreme Court ruled Segregation in schools unconstitutional in the court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
4. Plessy v. Ferguson
5. An African American girl named Linda Brown was denied admission to her local school.
6. Segregation was ruled unconstitutional and violated the 14th Amendment.

Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

Dec 5, 1955

1. Rosa Parks arrested
2. Montgomery, Alabama
3. After refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, Rosa Parks was arrested. Her Bravery inspired many other African Americans to stand up for equal rights.
4. An African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus and was later arrested for it.
5. Her refusal led to not only her arrest but also to an African American uprising called the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses

Nov 23, 1956

1. Supreme Court bans segregation in Montgomery buses
2. Montgomery, Alabama.
3. After African American protesters refused to take the bus in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, The Supreme Court rule segregation in buses unconstitutional.

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Aug 29, 1957

1. Civil Rights Act of 1957
2. Although many people opposed and tried to get around this Act, it got pushed through and it helped thousands of African American's to achieve some equal rights.
3. Washington D.C.
4. Congress
5. It stated to protect African American's right to vote.

Events at Little Rock, Arkansas

Sep 24, 1957

1. Little Rock events
2. After an effort to prevent African American students from attending the local school, Faubus lost the fight to the Little Rock Nine.
3. Little Rock, Alabama
4. Governor Orval Faubus wanted to stop African American students from coming to school to get re-elected. President Dwight D. Eisenhower helped a group of students called "The Little Rock Nine" fight for their education at the school.
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the students to the school.

Attack on the Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

1. Freedom Riders attacked
2. Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama.
3. After a group of peaceful protesters led a sit-in on a segregated bus, a series of angry white mobs attacked them using tactics such as throwing fire bombs, slashing tires, and violence.
4. They rode segregated buses in an action of peaceful protesting.
5. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
6. Whites joined in with the freedom riders.

James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

1. James Meredith at Ole Miss
2. Oxford, Mississippi
3. After African American student James Meredith tried to enroll to Ole Miss he was cruelly turned down based on his race. Once President Kennedy figured what was happening (and that the Governor was involved) he sent troops to protect him and James Meredith was able to attend.
4. He was turned down from the university based on his race.
5. President Kennedy sent troops to escort him to the school so he could enroll and be protected.

Medgar Evers Assasinated

Jun 12, 1963

1. Medgar Evers assassination
2. Jackson, Mississippi.
3. Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot to death by a white supremacist outside of his own home, causing widespread mourning among America.
4. He was a Civil Rights activist and a member of the NAACP.
5. After he was shot to death by a white supremacist, many leaders, such as the President, were very impacted my the assassination and tried to make people aware of it.

The March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1. The March on Washington
2. Washington D.C.
3. Wanting to take civil rights to a new level, President Kennedy agrees to a march on Washington. Demonstrators of all races gathered together listening to songs, hymns, and speeches including MLK's famous speech "I Have a Dream".
4. To lobby Congress and to build more public support for the civil rights movement.
5. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

Schoolgirls killed in bombing

Sep 15, 1963

1. Four girls killed from a bombing in a Baptist Church.
2. Birmingham, Alabama.
3. In an act of white supremacy, terrorists killed four innocent African American girls in a bombing on Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Louis Allen assassination

Jan 31, 1964

1. Civil rights worker assassinated
2. Liberty, Mississippi.
3. Civil rights worker was shot to death outside of his own home after attempting to register to vote.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. Civil Rights Act of 1964
2. Washington D.C.
3. After racial violence had shocked the nation, Kennedy proposed a new civil rights act in attempt to end segregation.
4. President Lyndon B. Johnson
5. The end of segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.

Malcolm X assassination

Feb 21, 1965

Location: New York City, New York.
Summary: Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally in New York City.

March to Selma

Mar 7, 1965

1. March to Selma
2. Selma, Alabama.
3. Civil rights leaders organized a march into Selma for equal voting rights. After violence broke out on television, Johnson sprung into action.
4. It was organized because a majority of Selma's African American population were prevented from voting, and were being terrorized.
5. Sheriff Jim Clark ordered troops to stop them, many were beaten in full view of television cameras.
6. President Johnson became furious and proposed a new voting rights law.

Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965

Jul 9, 1965

1. Voting Rights Act of 1965
2. Washington D.C.
3. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorizing the attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters.

Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice

Oct 2, 1967

1. Thurgood Marshall, First black justice
2. Washington D.C.
3. Attorney Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
4. He was the NAACP's chief counsel and director of Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was also the attorney who focused on cases that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
5. Because it showed that African American's could do the same things as whites and that they were finally gaining some equal rights.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King

Apr 4, 1968

1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
2. Memphis, Tennessee.
3. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a sniper in Memphis, marking the start of nationwide mourning and the end to an era in history.
4. Supporting a strike in Memphis to commit billions of dollars to end poverty and unemployment in the U.S., Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a sniper.
5. Because his death marked the end of an era in history, and the civil rights movement no longer had unity of purpose.