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Brown v board of education
In 1954 the browns moved to a new town. When Oliver brown tried to enroll his daughter in to elementary school they were rejected because of there skin. In turn this made little Linda brown have a two hour commute to and from school everyday. Oliver was not happy and called the NAACP to fight the school in segregation. In a trail that last years Oliver won! And in result overturned Plessy v Ferguson. -
The murder of Emmett Till
On august 28 1955, 14 year old Emmett was visiting family in small town Mississippi. He was accused for whistling at a white woman in a public place. In turn Emmett was lynched. He was also servealy beaten. A couple of days later they found Emmett floating in the Tallachie River. His murders Roy Bryant and Milam were trailed by a all white jury and even committed to the mureder but they were still found not guilty. -
Rosa Parks
On December 1st 1955, in Montgomery Alabama. A woman by the name of Rosa parks was sitting in the middle of the bus. When a white man didn’t have a seat. Rosa was forced to give up her seat or go to jail. This starred the biggest boycott in American history. It lasted 381 days. Only ending because the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. This was a big movement in civil right’s history -
Southern Christian leadership conference
On January 10th 1957 The southern Christian leadership conference was born (SCLC). Founded by Martin Luther King jr. the SCLC helped organize and plan many nonviolent protests. Protests such as the Montgomery bus boycott and the March On Washington. But the biggest goal the SCLC had was to help African Americans become registered voters and to end segregation. -
Little Rock Nine
On September 4th 1957, a group of nine students in Little Rock Arkansas made history. These 9 students were going to be the first desegregated students in an American school. These 9 face lots of challenges with armed military soldiers escorting the 9 to school everyday. In the end only 3 graduated from the same high school. But the Little Rock 9 made history. -
Greensboro sit ins
On February 1st 1960. A group of four freshman college students in Greensboro North Carolina sat at a white only lunch counter. At first the owner refused to serve the 4 and the owner closed the store quickly. Two days later 60 students showed up the the next day 300 students. By the end over 70,000 people participated in the sit in. Which were supposed to be peaceful end up with the whites beating the blacks out of the chairs. Finally in July the lunch counter served blacks.