The Bombing Of A Church
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a act of just pure Hatred towards Blacks. Because on Sunday, September 15, 1963, four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath what turned out to be the girls restroom. Only 4 Black girls died. Three of them 14 years old, and one of them 11.
Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court's opinion in the Brown v. Board of Education case of 1954 legally ended decades of racial segregation in America's public schools. All people, Black and White, wants to be educated and smart. White's were very rude, and told Black's they couldn't, just because their skin wasn't our color, and Black's stood up for it.
The Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. Local laws dictated that African American passengers sat at the back of the bus while whites sat in front. If the white section became full, African Americans had to give up their seats in the back. When Parks refused to move to give her seat to a white rider, she was taken to jail; she was later bailed out by a local civil rights leader.
(Claudette Colvin)
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. During the summer of 1957, the Little Rock Nine enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, which until then had been all white. The students’ effort to enroll was supported by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education had declared segregated schooling to be unconstitutional.
The Sitting Protest
On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond and Ezell Blair, sat down at a “whites-only” lunch counter at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, and refused to leave after being denied service. Additional students joined them over the following weeks and months, and sit-in protests spread through North Carolina to other states in the South.
Desegregation protests
On Sept. 30, 1962, chaos broke out at the University of Mississippi after an African-American man named James Meredith attempted to enroll. That night, students and other protesters took to the streets, burning cars and throwing rocks at the federal marshals who were tasked with protecting Meredith. By the time the riot was over, observers said the grounds looked like a war zone, and the smell of tear gas hung in the air.
Murder of evans Medgar
On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers, 37, was shot in the back while walking up to his house. His two small children witnessed his murder. In his arms were a pile of tee-shirts that said, "Jim Crow Must Go." The gun that killed Evers was found with fingerprints, and the suspect, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, was swiftly arrested.
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, an interracial assembly of more than 200,000 people gathered peaceably in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial to demand equal justice for all citizens under the law. The crowd was uplifted by the emotional strength of the address given by Martin Luther King, Jr., that came to be known as the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Selma to Montgomery March
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans had been campaigning for voting rights.
The Assassination of Dr. Maritain Luther king Jr.
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. He was struck in his face and neck.
The Free Ride
Jim Crow Laws were always hanging over their head. It seemed like there was no way around it.
The freedom riders had only one goal... test the Jim Crow Laws by riding interstate busses down south. This also put huge pressure on the Federal Government to do something about the rides. At first they did little to nothing, but as violence became more common, it didn't give them much of a choice to act.