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Brown vs The Board of Education 1951/1954

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Brown vs The Board of Education 1951/1954

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before this happened, the Plessy vs Ferguson trial happened in 1896. Oliver Brown wanted his 8-year old daughter to attend an all white school close to his home and sued the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. this event resulted in Thurgood Marshall becoming the first black member of the supreme court.

info from google slide presentation.

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Rosa Parks, a black woman, sat in the white section of a bus and refused to give it to a white man. she was arrested for this and would later become the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. black leaders decided to boycott the bus system by refusing to use the bus, which the Supreme Court desegregated as well. this event allowed black people to sit in any part of a bus.

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Governor Orval Faubus could not keep order if he had to desegregate public schools, so he ordered the National Guard to keep black students out of Central High School. President Eisenhower did not like this and put the National Guard under his control and ordered them to protect the 9 students as they attended classes. this event put desegregation in the south.

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4 college students took a stand against segregation and refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter without being served. soon others joined in their cause.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement

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Martin Luther became the spokesman of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He led a non-violent resistance, such as the Bus Boycott. MLK got his approach from Mohandas Ghandi. MLK peace movement was finally accepted by the USA and segregation was no more. MLK was later assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

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seven blacks and six whites mounted a bus tour through the south to protest segregated bus terminals. The group met harsh resistance everywhere they went. At one point a rioter threw a bomb into the bus.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement

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more than 200,000 people of race and color congregated in Washington with a peaceful march to force the Civil Rights Legislation and establish job equality to everyone.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement

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600 protestors participated in the Selma to Montgomery march to protest the killing of a black protestor by a white officer. the protestors were met by police forces, who beat and tear gassed the protesters when they refused to leave and charged the police forces.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement

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This new law banned voter literacy tests and provided federal examiners in certain voting  jurisdictions.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement

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Civil Rights Leaders Assassinated   1965 and 1968

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Civil Rights Leaders Assassinated   1965 and 1968

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during the Civil Rights Movement, two of its leaders were assassinated. the first was Malcolm X, former Nation of Islam leader and Organization of Afro-American Unity founder, and the second was MLK, whose death caused riots and looting afterwords.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement