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Brown v Board of Education
A giant court case addressing the legal issues of segregation, especially in schools. It was challenging Plessy v Ferguson, which earlier decided was "separate but equal", and they were trying to over rule that using evidence from studies saying that separation was unequal. -
Emmitt Till Murder
A boy that was traveling to see family, and was seen talking to a white women, and murdered. The men that murdered him were found not guilty, and it sparked African Americans to want change in America. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Started when Rosa Parks didn't give up her bus seat, went to jail, and people wanted to stop the segregation and unfair actions of whites. So there were lots of people walking, or driving in cars to go to where they needed to go, very successful, and start of MLK being a civil rights leader. -
Little Rock 9
Nine black teenagers who attempted to integrate into a previously all white high school to desegregate it. Mobs were there, police and national guard was there preventing letting them in, the president had to step in to enforce Brown v Board of Education and have guards escort them everywhere in the school for the entire school year. -
Lunch Counter Sit ins
Starting in Greensboro, it started with 4 brothers who sat at a white only lunch counter, in an attempt to desegregate and order food. They were staying the day, disrupting service, arrested, but this led to a bigger movement where lunch counters all over the country people would sit at white only counters to end desegregation and the mistreatment. -
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Freedom Bus Riders
These were civil rights activists, black and white who addressed the lack of desegregation at bus stops in the south, so they road the buses, and at the stops, the blacks would use the white facilities, and the whites would use the black facilities. This "protest" did not go well with the south, and they were met with a lot of violent actions through their journey to desegregate another place in the south. -
Birmingham Protests
One of the most segregated places in the country, the goal was to increase black employment, so they had school children who were a little risk compared to adults would protest on the streets go out and call for equal rights. The police took a lot of actions against them, like hosing them with water, jailing tons of them, and it got a lot of media attention as well. -
March on Washington
It was a March of thousands of people where they gathered to protest about jobs and equality, civil rights. The main speaker was MLK who had his famous "I had a dream" speech there. -
Freedom Summer (Mississippi)
It was a volunteer based movement with college students driving down to Mississippi to try to establish summer schools, and get many black people registered for voting. Since Mississippi had the largest black population but lowest voting registration, that was their target, but three students were killed, causing big media attention. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This was important act that legally outlawed public segregation, prohibited discrimination in employment, and ended the Jim Crow Laws. It also was important because the government could now enforce the desegregation and was important for the civil rights movement. -
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Selma March
The last nonviolent protest, was a march attempted to go from one city to another, at first was fine, then were met with police that were taking extreme action at dispersing the march under the governor's orders. It was a march that led to the creating the voting rights act, protesting forf votging rights. -
Voting rights act of 1965
The act prohibits literacy testing and poll taxes which previously hindered many blacks from registering. It also allows the federal government to take over voting registering if the state is not letting people register.