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Brown v Board of Education
Who was Involved: Oliver Brown - father of Linda Brown - NAACP - Lawyer
Where did this take place: Kansas - also South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, District of Columbia
What happened: Overturn Plessy vs Ferguson 9-0 -
Murder of Emmitt Till
Who was involved: Carolyn Bryant - 21 year old, Roy Bryant - husband, J.W Millan- brother in law
Where did this take place: Money, Mississippi
What happened: Whistled at a white women, gets killed after, only 14 years old -
Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott
Who was involved: Rosa Parks
Where did this take place: Montgomery, Alabama
What happened: Refused to move from her seat on the bus -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Where: Atlanta, Georgia
The SCLC was an organization linked to the black churches: 60 black ministers were pivotal in organizing civil right activism. Martin Luther King Jr was elected President. They focused its non violent strategy on citizenship, schools and efforts to desegregate individual cities. It played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery
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Little Rock 9
Who was involved: NAACP - 9 black students
Where did this take place: Little Rock, Arkansas
What happened: 9 black students went to white only school, they were harassed, bullied, and attacked. Only few were able to graduate. -
Greensboro Sit ins
Who was involved: 4 Black College Student
Where did this take place: Greensboro, North Carolina
What happened: In Woolworth’s lunch counter they could buy items but not be served food. They went there to peacefully protest -
Ruby Bridges
Who was involved: Ruby Bridges
Where did this take place: New Orleans, Louisiana
What happened: One of 4, 6 year old black children pass a hard test to go to a white school. She was escorted by Federal Marshals to be the only student taught by one teacher. -
Freedom Riders
Who was involved: 436 individuals on 60 separate ride groups, CORE, SNCC, NAACP, Nashville student movement
Where did this take place: Southern States
What happened: They sent on a journey from DC to the southern states on a bus. They did it to challenge desegregation on public transport. -
March on Washington
Who was involved: 250,000 people
Where did this take place: Washington D.C
What happened: Peaceful and respectful protest for jobs and freedom Martin Luther King gave his I HAVE A DREEM speech. It was the last speech of the day. -
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Who was involved: MLK + LBJ
Where did this take place: Washington D.C
Government to prevent racial discrimination and segregation base on race, color, religion, or national origin in private business and public facilities -
Assassination of Malcom X - Civil Rights Leader
Who was involved: Thomas Hagan - Norman 3x Butler, Thomas 15x Johnson
Where did this take place: New York, NY - Audubon Ballroom
What happened: 3 gunman shot him 21 times -
Selma to Montgomery Marches(Bloody Sunday)
Who was involved: SCLC and Jon Lewis
Where did this take place: Selma Alabama
What happened: During the first march, Peaceful protestors were violently attacked by the police, that led to a national outrage. -
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Who was involved: LBJ
Where did this take place: Washington D.C
What happened: Banned literacy test, Poll Tax, voting is a federal matter not a state matter -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was involved: James Earl Ray
Where did this take place: Memphis Tennessee, Loraine Motel
What happened: He got assassinated on the second floor balcony at the Loraine Motel