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Plessy V. Ferguson
An African-American passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. The rejected Plessy’s argument that his constitutional rights were violated, Strict legislation based on race continued following the Plessy decision and descrimination continued as well. -
Brown V. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, the Court ruled that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional. After Brown, the nation made great strides and protested in oder to have education for all studenst no matter their race. The court ruled that it was the state's responsibility to ensure educational equality: -
Murder of Emmett Till
August 28: Roy Bryant, Carolyn's husband, and his half brother J. W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till.They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, and got a large metal fan used for ginning cotton to his neck with barbed wire, and pushing the body into the river. Later on
August 29: J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant are arrested on kidnapping charges .
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Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott
In Montgomery, Alabama, when a bus became full, the seats nearer the front were given to white passengers. Montgomery bus driver James Blake ordered Parks and three other African Americans seated nearby to move. Rosa Parks didnt move because she believed that it wasnt fair for her and the other two to move to the back. She refused to move and got kicked out of the bus, got arrested and fined with 10$. Due to this, there were even more protests about African Americans equality. -
Founding of (SCLC)
Southern Leadership Conference adopted the current name, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Some of the basic decisions made by the founders throughout the meetings included the practice of nonviolent mass action, and the task to make the SCLC movement open to all. Many people got involved in this group in order to sto segregation and to help the process go faster. -
Little Rock of Central High School
A event of the American Civil Rights Movement, nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Many of the students started to protest and many troops arrived and started threatening them to use violence as an asnwer, but then they release them and did not lynched the 9 African American students. -
GreensBoro Sit-Ins
A group of college stidents decided that in order to get their equal rights they had to fight back using non-violence. They did what it was known as sit-ins, which they basically sit on the all White area. White people started to use violence towards them, but these African American students didnt use violnece to defend themselves, instead they just stood there and not listening to the brutal things the White people were saying to them. -
Freedom Riders
In 1961,desegregating public transportation throughout the south was a major issue. These tactics became know as the "Freedom Rides". he first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. Many of these buses were burt down and many of the people inside were beaten up by segregationists. This cuased more tension between the Whites and African Americans also tension between the North and the South. -
March On Washington
The March on Washington, was one of the most historic event that changed America. Marting luther King used his famous speech 'I have Dream", in order to demand economic rights and freedom for African Americnas. He believed that the Whites adn African Americans should join together and have equality. -
SNCC and Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi,which many civil rights groups were involved such as the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to expand black voting in the South. This gave atleast some of the south African Americans the right to vote adn have a chance to not feel like a minority. -
Civil Rights Act
Was a civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Gave freedom to those who didnt have it and gave equality for all. A lot of people were happy with this idea and many still believed that African Americnas shouldnt have the same rights as the Whites. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was assassinated by a shot which lead to his death which was killed by a Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. Although Malcolm was Islamic as well, many people people didnt believe that his philosophy of using violence towards ending segregation was a good thing. Which led to his death. -
Voting Rights Act
Gave African Americans their right to vote, and aimed to overcome legal barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment. African Americans now had the right to vote, which really changed America because there were more people who thought diffrently and chose different candidates to become president. Like today, many people voted for Barak Obama and he is still presidnet till today, which really made a change in history. -
Assassination of MLK
James Earl,a confirmed racist and criminal, began to plan the assassination of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March. Many people thought that they couldnt be able to keep on going without their leader but till today there are still equal rights throughout America.
