Civil Rights Era
TEN Most Important Events
Brown vs the Board of Education (1954)
- Kansas
- The Supreme Court Justice ruled that segregation in schools was unconstintutional
- This landmark decision underscore the the US Supreme Court's role in affecting changes in social policy
Murder of Emmett Till
- A boy from Chicago Illinois
- Murdered when he was 14
- Motivated Civil Rights Movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott
- December 1955
- Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Her arrest caused a boycott of city buses
Little Rock Crisis
- Central H.S in 1957
- prevented to attend school
- Arkansas Governor: Orval Faubus
- Federal Escort to their classes
Albany Movement
- desegregation coalition
- November 1961, Georgia
- led by William G. Anderson
- attracted nationwide attention but failed due to opposition
- SNCC, NAACP
March on Washington
- 28 August 1963
- 250,000 walked from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial
- MLK's famous speech "I Have a Dream"
- Interracial, peaceful
16th Street Church Bombing
- 15 September 1963, Sunday
- Baptist church at Birmingham, Alabama
- radical terrorism killed 4 African American Children and injured many
- contributed to support for the Civil Rights Act
Selma to Montgomery March
- 3 marches, 1965
- grew out from voting rights in Selma, Alabama
- Dallas County Voting League and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- called help from MLK and the Southern Christian Leadership Alliance
Civil Rights Act of 1964
- passed by Lyndon B. Johnson
- allowed Black people to integrate with White people
- called fro end of segregation and demanded integration
Freedom Riders
- civil rights activities who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961
- test the Supreme Court decision on Boyton v. Virginia and Irene Morgan v. commonwealth of Virginia.