Black Civil Rights 1948-1968
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Army desegregated
- 1948
- Brown V Board of Education
- 17th May 1954 Topeika, Kansas Oliver Brown sued the school because his daughter had to go to a school much further away. Supreme Court ruled in his favour and ordered ALL STATES to integrate schools.
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- December 1st 1955- December 1956 Rosa Parks, 42 and black, refused to give up her seat for a young healthy black man. she was arrested. Blacks stopped using busses and walked everwhere, bus companies lost 75% profits. 18,000 people walked every day.
- Southern Manifesto (what was it and when)
- 1956 Southern Senators were angry at the court ruling (brown V Topeika) So signed this doccument to say they would campaign to stop integrating schools.
- Martin Luther King Travelling (information)
- 1957 Non- Violent protest MLK was Christian He travelled and gave speeches encouraging Blacks to protest
- Formation of Southern Christion Leadership Conference
- 1957
- Little Rock
- 3rd September 1957 9 Black students enrolled at Little Rock High. They were met with great opposition, including the govenor of the state. However, Eisenhower sent in 1,000 paratroopers and 10,000 national guard
- Freedom rides
- 1961 Congress Of Racial Equality set out to travel in desegregated transport. In the South, much was still segregated. Kennedy managed to get rid of public transport segregation.
- Elmett Till Murdered (What happened and when?)
- 1955 A 14 year old boy was lynched for wolf-whistling at a white girl. The courts found the murderers innnocent. Lots of media speculation
- James Meredith
- September 1962 James Meredith tried to enter the Missippi university. Kennedy sent out 127 deputy marshals to protect him from lynchers riots ensued, people died and injured..
- Freedom Marches
- 1963 Organised by MLK The violent reaction by police to a peaceful protest shocked the nation. opinions turning against authorities
- 'I have a Dream' (MLK)
- 28th August 1963
- Civil Rights Act Passed
- 1964 Lyndon Johnson
- Malcolm X Murdered
- 1965
- Selma March
- 1965 (Black Citizens denied the right to vote, Sheriff Clark hit a civil rights campaigner on the steps of a civic building Adverse media attention) march- from Selma to Montgomery across Alabama. Violence by police, including tear gas. A week later the supreme Court ruled the march MUST go on
- Voting Rights Act
- 1965
- Act On Marriage
- 1967 Legal for Black people to marry White
- Housing Act
- 1968