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Tulsa, Massacre
The Tulsa Massacre happened in Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma where there were more than 800 injuries. The white mob used guns, explosives, and fire to cause people serious injuries. The reason we don’t know the exact numbers is because this event entirely was hidden to the public and we didn’t find out about it until many years later. -
Brown v Board
In this decision by the Supreme Court they decided that the separation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. They stated that it violated the 14th amendment this affected the whole country. This may have been the start of the civil rights movement as the black people saw that they can get more rights if they can get a supreme court ruling. -
Emmett Till
The story of Emmett Till is a 14 year old boy killed by two white men. He was killed because he supposedly whistled at a 21 year old white woman named Carolyn Bryant. The white men were Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam. When his funeral happened his mother asked for his casket to an open casket so the world can see what they did to her son. -
Rosa Parks Bus Boycott
The bus boycott started with Rosa Parks refusing to go to the back of the bus when she was in the colored section. She was arrested for not getting up and spent the day in jail at Montgomery, Alabama. This started a bus boycott where blacks would not step onto a bus for 381 days and got them rights on the bus. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The SCLC was an organization linked to black churches for organizing civil rights activism. The leader was Martin Luther King Jr and was at Atlanta, Georgia. They had many meetings on how to get more rights and make there movement remarkable. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock 9 consisted of 9 students that were in high school at Little Rock, Arkansas. They were first prevented to enter the school by the governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus. They were then able to enter the school by the intervention of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Brown v Board decision. At the school they exceeded their expectations by having excellent grades and attendance. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
The Greensboro Sit-ins started with 4 students at Greensboro, North Carolina. They went into Woolworth’s lunch counter expecting to be served but weren’t. In retaliation they sat down and stayed there until the owner’s had to shut down the store due to white people not wanting to eat there due to the 4 students. They affected the whole country with them successfully making the counters lose millions of dollars. -
Ruby Bridges
The story of Ruby Bridges started when she was 6 years old and went to Louisiana schools at New Orleans, Louisiana. She was escorted to and from school by 4 U.S. marshals. She was the only student in her class the first year then she had a normal class the next year. -
Freedom Riders
The freedom riders had 436 individuals with 60 separate riders in the South. They launched them to challenge the buses that were racially segregated. They were a success and let them get rights for blacks to ride buses with white people. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington had 250,000 people participate at Washington D.C. They had a peaceful protest for jobs and freedom for black people. The last speech that happened that day was the famous I have a dream by Martin Luther King Jr. -
Civil Rights Act
This had Martin Luther King Jr and Lyndon B. Johnson agree at Washington D.C. They had the federal government prevent racial discrimination and segregation on race, color, religion, or nation origin in private business and public facilities. -
Malcolm X
The person we are taking about is Malcolm X where he was a very powerful man who was the opposite of peaceful civil rights. He said if they hit you hit them back but don’t start it. He then turned to religion where he turned into a changed man but died by a 21 gunshot wounds. -
Selma to Montgomery
This march had the SCLC and Jon Lewis ensure that the black people would get voting rights. This was a 54 mile highway which did get what they wanted and showed they would do so much for freedom. -
Voting Rights Act
This law was signed into by Lyndon B. Johnson this prohibited racial discrimination in voting. This had much attention since the South tried so hard to keep the blacks from voting. -
Martin Luther King Jr
The leader of the SCLC was Martin Luther King Jr and played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement. This was the man who thought of the marches that could get them rights and freedom. He was killed on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee with a sniper shot.