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Emmett Till’s Murder
He was a 14-year-old African American youth who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. and he was kidnapped beaten shot in the head and had a large metal fan in his neck with barbed wire and they throw him into a river . -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating -
Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association
The MIA was instrumental in guiding the Montgomery bus boycott, a successful campaign that focused national attention on racial segregation in the South and catapulted King into the national spotlight. -
The little rock nine crisis
Nine African American students arrived at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They made their way through a crowd shouting obscenities and even throwing objects. Once the students reached the front door the National Guard prevented them from entering the school and were forced to go home. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
This legislation established a Commission on Civil Rights to investigate civil rights violations and also established a Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 authorized the prosecution for those who violated the right to vote for United States citizens. -
The freedom rides
were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. Freedom Riders tried to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters at bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina and other Southern states. -
The civil Rigths act 1964
This civil rigths act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race hiring and promoting but this act do not resolve the racist . -
Voting Rigths act
This civil rigths was signed into the law by Lyndon B. Johnson the voting Rights Act had an immediate impact. By the end of 1965, a quarter of a million new Black voters had been registered, one-third by federal examiners. By the end of 1966, only four out of 13 southern states had fewer than 50 percent of African Americans registered to vote. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that sent shock waves reverberating around the world a Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s, using a combination of impassioned speeches and nonviolent protests to fight segregation and achieve significant civil rights advances for African Americans -
Fair Housing Act
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex. -
Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
The Court held that busing was an appropriate remedy for the problem of racial imbalance in schools, even when the imbalance resulted from the selection of students based on geographic proximity to the school rather than from deliberate assignment based on race -
Hank Aaron’s Home Run Record
Aaron closed out with 755 roundtrippers. He hit 385 on the road, and 370 at home, both of which are new career records he has taken over from Babe Ruth. The key to his over-all performance was consistency over a long period -
Barbara Jordan’s Address at the Democratic National Convention
She wants the people to understand that they must look to the future, be the voice of the people and recognize their common sense; if they don’t, they not only blaspheme the political heritage, they ignore the common ties that bind all the Americans.