Civil Rights Movement Nick Summers

Brown vrs board of education

May 17, 1951

1. Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court 2.the little girl was denied to preschool 3.it was overturned from the plessy vrs fergeson

Rosa parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

Dec 1, 1955

1.rosa parks refused to to give up her seat and was pulled of the bus and arrested.
2.she was arrested and started the buss boycott

Civil Rights act of 1957

Sep 9, 1957

1.dwight eisenhower
2.everyone could vote equally without segregation or race

Temple bombing

Oct 12, 1958

1.dynamite exploded in a entrance way at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue, more commonly known as "the Temple."

sit ins

Feb 1, 1960

1.people protested by not leaving and they would not cause violence
2. Greensboro NC Four students from North Carolina A&T sit down at a "whites-only" Woolworth's lunch counter and ask to be served.

Attack of the freedom riders

May 4, 1961

1.freedom riders rode on busses once they were allowed to and ignored the rioters and people against them doing it.
2.core
3.freedom riders were also whites

james meredith enrolls at ole miss

Oct 1, 1962

1.the governor of mississippi stood in his path from entering the enrollment offices .
2. john f kennedy sent in troops from the national guard to protect meredith.

medgar evers assassinated

Jun 12, 1963

1.a civil rights activist who organized voter registration efforts
2. he was shot in the back walking up to his house

The march on washington

Aug 28, 1963

1.for jobs and freedom
2.i have a dream speech

john f kennedy assassantion

Nov 22, 1963

1. john f Kennedy got shot in the head
2. dallas texas

civil rights act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. president lyndon johnson 2.to end segragation in poublic places

Malcom X

Feb 21, 1965

1.was an African american leader in the nation of Islam
2.was assassinated at the Audubon ballroom in Manhattan

march on selma

Mar 7, 1965

1.the right to vote
2.getting beaten and sprayed with fire houses
3lyndon called for a federal legislation of voting .

events at little rock arkansas

Sep 4, 1967

1.nine african american students were admitted into central high school which caused riots and the government had to get police and soldiers and escort the students into the building.
2.army pushed everybody aside and guided the students into the building

Thurgood marshall first black supreme couart justice

Oct 2, 1967

1.he was a civil rights advocate
2.it ws the first african american supreme justice

The assassination o dr martin luther king

Apr 4, 1968

1.hw was shot at th lorayann hotell
2.he was beloved by the nation

fair housing act

Apr 11, 1968

1.the fair housing act was that said you would have to rent or sell to anyone and not to discriminate certain races;
2.on April 11 Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights act of 1968