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-Public Accommodations,
-Schools, Theaters, Restaurants, Libraries etc.- (conditions for these locations were worse for black communities, often had no buses, teachers paid less, lacked basic supplies)
-Housing- De facto segregation
-Marriage- law said whites can not marry blacks, Asians, native Americans etc.
-Workplace- White: Professional (doctor, lawyer etc.) Blue: -Labor work (hands etc.) Pink: Women work
-Politics: poll taxes, voting etc.

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1942

-Founders: James Farmer, Bayard Rustin
-Peaceful, non-violent
-Among the first to use sit ins to protest against segregation and discriminations
-Resulted in integration of restaurants, theaters, other facilities in Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Syracuse.

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Jackie Robinson desegregates Major League Baseball

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Jackie Robinson desegregates Major League Baseball

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1947

-The 1st African American baseball player to play in the major league (Brooklyn dodgers)
-Baseball is "America's past-time"
-Endures racial epithets, is hit with the ball on purpose by pitchers, discriminated against by teams and crowds.
-Laid the ground-work by integration of all major sports.

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1948

*Executive order by Harry Truman
-Desegregated the military
-Ended discriminatory hiring practices based on race for federal jobs
-Showed that modern presidents were willing to take action to promote equality

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1950

-Heman sweatt was a civil rights activist who wanted to study law to challenge segregation
-There was no law school for people of color in Texas
-Tired to register for classes the University of Texas but was denied
-Instead, a separate law school was created, however, Sweatt said the new school was unequal and violated his 14th amendment rights
-Case went up to the Supreme Court

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1954

-Linda brown father tried to enroll her into the closet school to their house but denied bc its a white school
-Other school was too far had to walk miles, get on multiple buses etc.
-They went to court for 14th amendment bc its unfair and lost.
-Got a lawyer named Thurgood Marshall. He becomes the first Black Supreme Court Justice because, he did so good.

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14 year old boy

-Lives in Chicago, moved to from migration piece, mom decides to send him to Mississippi to stay with his uncle and cousins for part of a summer.
-Cat calls a white women and runs away from a dare from his cousins.
-Women is Carolyn Bryant
-He was lynched, beat and drowned in the Tallahatchie River by the women's husband.
-Women lied about the story for decades.
-Mom chooses to show his beaten body to the public to show the world what happened.
-Mr. Bryant & his brother were found "not gulity" by an all white jury (blacks were kept from voting rights which means jury duty as well) in less than a hour.

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1955-1956

-Rose park was deeply affected by the Emmett Till story and it galvanized her activism.
-Boycott was sparked after the arrest of Rose Park for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.
-African American carpooled, walked rode bikes, took taxis, or hitchiked.
-KK attacked protesters, set off bombs at the homes of organizers and firebombed several churches where meetings were held.
-Dr. Martin Luther King. JR. was chosen to lead the boycott when he was 26.
-The boycott lasted 381 days.
-Montgomery buses were damaged
-Thrust Dr.King into a leadership role in civil rights movement.

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Little rock nine: integration of central high school

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Little rock nine: integration of central high school

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1957

-happened in little rock Arkansas
-9 black students attempted to attend a previously all white school.
-governor Orval Faubus sent the Arkansas national guard to stop the students from entering the school
-president Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect the students and enforce desegregation

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1960

-4 African American students sat down at a whites only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
-They sat at the counter all day, but the waitress refuses to serve them
-Came back everyday with more people
-Eventually spread at different places
-Began new "in" like liberties: read ins, pools: wade ins, etc.
-Went on for months, people got arrested.

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Students non-violent coordinating committee created (SNCC)

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Students non-violent coordinating committee created (SNCC)

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1961

Students organization that was committed to justice, peace, and non- violent.
-trained students in civil disobedience, counseling students to deliberately break laws they considered unjust.
-emphasized that you must not use violence, even if physically attacked.

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1961

-1960 supreme court got another case, transportation aka buses.
-CORE organized "freedom rides" intended to test if the south follows the rules or not, gets white who are on board  and black to integrate the buses together.
-The south came out in a very bad way, they attacked the buses, set them on fire, they beat the passages.
-CORE quits, SNCC keeps going the more it happens and gets out, it changes hearts and minds.
-Eventually it gets mad enough that president Kennedy sent US marshals to ensure safe passage through the south, Still abused white in jails.

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1963

-Dr. King called Birmingham the most segregated city in the country
*18 unsolved bombing of black neighborhoods
*SCLC began focusing its attention here
-may 2nd: 1000+ children peacefully marched and the city's public safety commissioner had them arrested
-may 3rd: more returned and the police used attack dogs and fire hoses on them
-photos of peaceful protesters being attacked shocked Americans and the presidents
-KKK reacted violently, bombing a motel and church, killing 4 little girls.

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1963

-A Philp Randolph first proposed the march 1941 during WW2, but in 1963 the time was right
-August 28th: 250,000+ people marched in Washington
*Largest political gathering ever in US History
-Musical performances, speeches, and prayers
*Most significant was Dr. King's "I have a Dream" Speech
-Set the stage for a new civil rights bill in Congress

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1964

-Supported by JFK,  then Johnson after his assassination
-Banned Discriminations on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origins
-Most important civil rights act passed since Reconstruction

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1965

-24th Amendment
-Poll taxes
-"Freedom Summer"
-Selma, Alabama
-March: Selma to Montgomery
-Edmund Pettus Bridge- 'Bloody Sunday'
-Voting Rights Act of 1965
-Literacy tests, Tactics
-Federal Intervention