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Congress of Racial Equality Founded
Congress of Racial Equality was an organization that was founded was founded in Chicago in 1942 by a group of students. It was founded in 1942 that was dedicated to civil rights reform through nonviolent action. -
Dodgers hire Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first black man on a white mans baseball team, he broke the standards that you "had to be white to be a good baseball player. Today people still praise him for what he did for the new world. -
Executive Order 9981
The exclusive order of 9981 was an order that Truman signed because he believed that discrimination in the military must end. -
Brown vs Board of Education
In a few states, schools were having an issue with black children feeling scared and uncomfortable because of segregation. They took a test and it was proven black children were uncomfortable. Eventually the court system declared that they would end segregation in public schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott (start)
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a boycott that resulted in the integration of Montgomery, Alabama's bus system. Rosa parks started the whole thing by just refusing her seat to a white man! -
Birmingham campaign
Between 1956 and 1963, there were 18 unsolved bombings in black neighborhoods. There was also two bombings in Jewish synagogues. The SCLC stepped directly into this violent climate, the SCLC is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Together they carefully planned a series of nonviolent actions against segregation. -
Integration of Central High School
The Little Rock school superintendent, Virgil Blossom, wanted to integrate the Central High School. Two thousand white students attended Central Eventually, nine black students were to join them during school hours. They are now known as the Little Rock Nine. -
First Lunch Counter Sit-in
Four Black students from North Carolina sat down at a lunch counter in a drugstore. They ordered food, but the waitress refused to serve them, because only white people could be served, The four students stayed there until the store closed. They came back later with 20 more people. The jim crow laws are a series of laws set to end or racial injustice. -
Freedom Rides
The freedom riders was a civil rights protests in which blacks and whites rode interstate buses together in 1961 to test whether the states were still abiding by the rules that the Supreme Court ruling went against segregation on transportation, like busses and taxies. -
March on Washington
A protest in which more than 250,000 people came to the nation's capital for "jobs and freedom" and the passage of civil rights legislation. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, was a big part of this protest -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark act that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or nationality. It was one of the most important civil rights laws and is still very important today. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The act of the Congress outlawing literacy tests and other tactics such as disenfranchise, that had long been used to deny African Americans the right to vote. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Affirmative action is a policy that calls on employers to actively seek to increase the number of minorities in their workforce -
Black Panther Party Founded
The Black Panther Party was a group founded in 1966 that demanded african americans rights and they was prepared to take violent action if there rights were stripped of them even more. -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Malcom X was a young man who was the leaderof the religious group "Nation of Islam."The nation of Islam is a religious group, also known as the Black Muslims, that promoted complete separation from white society by establishing black businesses, schools, and communities. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Civil Rights Act was the act of rendering discrimination, no matter you're sex, color, ethnicity, etc. -
Watts Riot
The Watts Riot was a race riot in Watts, a black ghetto in Los Angeles, caused by frustrations about poverty, prejudice, and police mistreatment. -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruling that busing was an acceptable way to achieve school integration, this act was the the ending of the policy of racial segregation.
