Civil rights tiemlien Connor Kostaroff 4th hour

By kostaroffc

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    1. Plessy v. Ferguson
    2.The school board in Topeka, Kansas wouldn't let a black girl to go to a white school.
    1. segregation in schools was ruled unconstitutional.

  • Rev. George Lee killed

    1.The Rev. George Lee killed
    2. Belzoni, Mississippi
    3. When Rev. Lee tried to vote the sheriff refused to take his poll tax, he want to the federal authorities because he was subsequently allowed to vote. Doing so started a mass amount of death threats. Rev. Lee soon died in a Klan killing.

  • Murder of Emmett Till

    1.Murder of Emmett Till
    2.Money, Mississippi
    3.Emmett Till was murdered for talking to a white women at a general store. The men were not found guilty.

  • Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat.

    Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat.
    1. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white man.
    2. Resulted in her arrest due to a second offense and started Montgomery bus boycott.

  • Attack of The Freedom Riders

    Attack of The Freedom Riders
    1.The Freedom Rider rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states to challenge non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia.
    2.Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
    3. No, there were thirteen freedom riders, seven blacks six whites.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957
    1. President Dwight D. Eisenhower Passed the law
    2. Primary voting rights for African Americans

  • Little Rock, Arkansas

    Little Rock, Arkansas
    1. Nine African American high school students were given access to go to a white school. When the Governor of Arkansas heard about the event, he called in the national guard the barricade the school.
    2. President Eisenhower sent in U.S. Marines to escort the students in to the school.

  • James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss

    James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss
    1. He was originally accepted but later withdrawn when they discovered his race. All public schools were forced to desegregate after the case Brown v. The Board of Education. He filed a law suit alleging discrimination. The case made it to the supreme court which ruled in his favor. When he went to register he found the doors blocked, rioting soon erupted.
    2. Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent in 500 U.S. to the scene. President John F. Kennedy sent in military police and national guard.

  • Medgar Evers Assassination

    Medgar Evers Assassination
    1. He was a civil rights activist and field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi.
    2. He was shot while walking back to his house Evers was struck in the back with a bullet that ricocheted into his home. He staggered 30 feet before collapsing, dying at the local hospital 50 minutes later. Evers was murdered just hours after President John F. Kennedy's speech on national television in support of civil rights.

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    1.March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital. The march was successful in pressuring the administration of John F. Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress.
    2. Martin Luther King's I have a Dream Speech.

  • Poll Tax Outlawed

    1.Poll Tax Outlawed in Federal elections
    2. Washington, D.C.
    3. Poll taxes were outlawed in the united states for Federal Election. African Americans no longer needed to pay to vote.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    1. President Lyndon Johnson 2.outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

  • Jimmie Lee Jackson

    1.Jimmie Lee Jackson Killed by Alabama state trooper.
    2. Marion, Alabama
    3.After participating in a peaceful protest in Alabama in February 1965, he was shot by a state trooper. He died a few days later. His death inspired a voting rights march; the day known as "Bloody Sunday"

  • March to Selma

    March to Selma
    1. As a demonstration to get backs to vote
    2. Alabama state troopers 3.There was a lasting Impact, On March 17, 1965, even as the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers fought for the right to carry out their protest, President Lyndon Johnson addressed a meeting of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting.

  • Oneal Moore

    1. Oneal Moore, Black Deputy killed by nightriders.
    2. Varnado, Louisiana 3.Moore and his partner Creed Rogers who was also black were on their way to Moore’s home to have dinner. The men were traveling in the patrol car when a truck pulled up alongside the two men and fired shots. Moore was hit in the head and died instantly.

  • Thurgood Marshall First Black Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall First Black Supreme Court Justice
    1.Lawyer in Batlimore for the NAACP
    2.Nobody ever thought of a black person becoming a supreme court justice.

  • Assassination of MLK jr.

    Assassination of MLK jr.
    1.King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he and associates were staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.
    2.He was the leader in the civil rights movement and helped everybody