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Supreme Court case: Plessy v. Ferguson
This Supreme Court case determines that segregation is legal and gives way to Jim Crow Law's -
Mendez vs. Westminster
Court Case about 9 year old Sylvia Mendez which battled for allowing people of Mexican descent to enter schools with white students, would later lead to Native Americans and Asians to being allowed as well. -
Supreme Court case: Brown v. Board of Education
The Board of Education agreed that separation in schools is illegal. -
Emmit Till murdered
14 year old Emmit Till is kidnapped and killed for whistling at a white woman, the two men responsible were acquitted of all charges by an all white jury. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, and she sparks the boycott for buses which lasts a year. -
Little Rock 9
9 black students were being blocked off by the National Guard, sent by the governor, even though Brown v. Board of Education deemed segregation in schools to be unconstitutional, he still went on. It was finally stopped by Federal Troops sent in by President Eisenhower. -
Greensboro Sit-Ins
The Greensboro Sit-Ins were an array of peaceful protests, which consisted of colored people sitting in whites only sections. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom rides begin and the buses go to the south to challenge segregation, and riding these buses were groups of white and black people, and they were met with many hateful people. -
March on Washington
Approx. 200,000 people march for freedom and to listen to Martin Luther King's famous speech "I Have a Dream". -
Martin Luther King delivers "I Have a Dream" speech
People congregate at the Lincoln Memorial and participants listen to Martin Luther King deliver his famous speech "I Have a Dream". -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
A bomb explodes at the 16th Street Baptist Church, killing Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment revokes poll tax and the Supreme Courts made the practice of this unlawful. -
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal to discriminate anyone in any way in the workplace. This would help the Federal government enforce integration. -
Freedom Summer
Civil rights organizations formed the Mississippi Summer Project which aimed at greatly increasing voter registration in Mississippi. This Project was formed from black Mississippians and more than 1,000 out-of-state people and these people faced ongoing harassment from the KKK, police and lots of other people.
[Citation - http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-summer] (Does not say the day it started - Date is wrong) -
The March from Selma to Montgomery
This marched started when the city's police killed a local resident and sparked this. On 7th March, 1978, 600 people started to walk 54 miles to Montgomery and a few blocks into the march, the people were met with police, some riding on horseback and attacked them. Footage from the news caused outrage all over the nation, and then the president televised a message saying he supported the voting rights bill. -
Congress passes the Voting Rights Act
Congress passed the Voting act which makes it easier for colored people to register to vote, and also making it illegal to restrict colored people from voting. -
President Johnson issues Executive Order 11246
Executive Order 11246 made harsher punishments for discrimination in the workplace. -
"Black Panther Party" LCFO formed as a poltical party
The LCFO was a poltical party and instead of focusing on just voting, they also focused on political education they also fought to readjust the wealth through tax reforms, all through violence being thrown at them. -
Martin Luther King assassinated
On this day Martin Luther King is assassinated at age 39. He is shot standing outside his balcony, and an escaped convict James Earl Ray is declared guilty of this crime. -
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Civil Rights Act is put into place impedes discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing, along with other things.