| what was Brown v Board of education | racial segregation at schools so campaigning for black and white people to be in education together 1951, after his daughter, Linda Brown, was denied entrance to Topeka’s all-white elementary schools resulting in mass desegregation |
| Emmet till information | fourteen year old visits family in Mississippi he was kidnapped, brutally beaten shot and dumped in river for allegedly whistling at a white woman. the men are arrested but not sentenced due to fully white jury |
| bus boycott | rosa parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus for a white man defying the law in response black community boycotted going on the bus which lasted over a year until buses were desegregated in dec 21 1956 |
| little rock | formerly all white school learns integration is difficult. 9 black students blocked from entering the school. Eisenhower sends federal troops and national guard on behalf of the students. 'little rock 9' |
| freedom riders | students volunteer to take bus trips through the south to test new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities. They are attacked along the way by angry mobs |
| civil rights act of 1964 | president johnson signs the act which prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, colour and religion allows federal government powers to enforce desegregation |
| Sit ins | 4 black students begin a sit in at a segregated woolworths lunch counter although refused service the could stay at the counter. triggers more nonviolent protests six months later the original four were served. 1960 feb 1 |
| march on washington D.C. | 200,000 people banded together and congregating at the lincoln memorial participants listen to famous i have a dream speech. august 28th |
