Civil Rights

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote a unanimous decision that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
  • Emmett Till Murder

    Emmett Till Murder

    Someone accused him of whistling at a White woman, then he was kidnapped, beaten, and shot in the head.
  • Rosa Parks & Montgomery Bus Boycott.

    Rosa Parks & Montgomery Bus Boycott.

    Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man. Dr Martain Luther King was the leader of the boycotts of city buses.
  • Little Rock Nine and Intergration

    Little Rock Nine and Intergration

    Black students who integrated an all-white school in 1957.
  • Greensboro WoolWorth's sit in.

    Greensboro WoolWorth's sit in.

    A protest where 4 Black college students sat at a lunch counter at the FW Woolworth.
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States
  • MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

    MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

    A famous letter written by Martin Luther King Jr while in jail.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    A march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
  • Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing

    Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing

    A bombing that killed 4 African American girls on one side of the building and injured more inside the church. all because of a protest.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    Eliminated the Poll tax.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    a landmark law that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    a landmark federal law signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to combat racial discrimination in voting, which it achieved by outlawing discriminatory practices like literacy tests, and providing federal oversight for voter registration in areas with a history of discrimination
  • “Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    “Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    Refers to the violent attack on civil rights marchers on March 7, 1965, as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, during their march to demand voting rights.
  • Loving v. Virginia

    Loving v. Virginia

    a landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that declared state laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional.