Civil rights

By kmuse
  • creation of naacp

    an organization formed to fight racial discrimination legally
  • Scottsboro Boys

    Scottsboro Boys

    nine black teenagers were arrested for the false accusation of raping two white women on a train is Alabama
  • jackie Robinson

    The first black baseball player in any major league.
  • brown v board of education

    the supreme court make school segregation unconstitutional.
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Rosa Parks led this boycott because she refused to move her seat and they arrested her.
  • murder of Emmitt till

    murder of Emmitt till

    he was kidnapped in Mississippi and murdered because he was accused of offending a while woman
  • little rock 9

    little rock 9

    9 African American students who integrated central high school. they play a big part in the civil rights movement
  • ruby bridge

    first black child to attend an all white elementary school in New orleans.
  • Birmingham jail

    there was a letter from Martin Luther King while in jail explaining why a nonviolent protest would be necessary
  • March on Washington

    this happened whenever martin Luther King delivered his "i have a dream" speech.
  • civil rights act

    this ended segregation and banned any sort of discrimination
  • Assassination of malcom x

    malcom x was a civil rights leader and he was killed in new york
  • voting rights

    this protected the voting rights for African Americans
  • Assassination of MLK jr.

    mlk was the leader of a non violent movement killed in memphis.