CRM timeline

Question 1

Board vs Brown of Education(1954)

Answer 1

Supreme court overturns Plessy v. Ferguson stating that separate schools could never be equal

Question 2

1955

Answer 2

Rosa Parks refuses to get off bus, lead to Montgomery Boycott until 1956 when Montgomery finall desegregated buses.

Question 3

1957

Answer 3

Jan: Foundation of Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)
Sept: Little Rock Nine - Eisenhower sent federal troops to to escort black children to Little Rock school

Question 4

1960

Answer 4

Feb: Woolworths lunch counter sit-in
April: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Question 5

1961

Answer 5

May: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and SNCC start Freedom summer. Result: Interstate buses were desegrated

Question 6

1963

Answer 6

May: Birmingham protests. Result: People nationwide saw the brutality exterted on black people by Eugene “Bull” Connor
Aug: March on Washington for jobs and votes. Results: 200,000 people were in attendance

Question 7

1964

Answer 7

Freedom summer: Mass attempt to register black people to vote
July: Civil Rights Act signed. Results: prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.

Question 8

1965

Answer 8

Feb: Malcolm X assassinated
March: Selma to Montgomery march
Aug: Voting Rights Act: Disbanded literacy tests, thus, making it easier for black people to vote.