Several kids wanted to go to a non
segregated school but a board of
education did not allow them
because they were “colored .So
there was a fight against a board of
education and a African American,
Mr. Brown who was against
segregated schools because the
White people would always get a
better education then Black
schools.
"To get rid of Negroes who were
acquiring wealth and property."
Ida fought against lynching and
segregation overall. She lived in a
fancy house since 1919 and left it
in 1929. Ida fought but never was
able to get the anti lynching law of
her dreams.
4 Agricultural and Technical
College students went on a sit
down in a Whites only lunch
counter and everyone either
ignored them or supported
them. By several days both white
and black students were going
on the sit down and by the end
of the week around 400 students A big event happened Malcolm X was a When 9 African
participated. This event caused on the Lincoln memorial man who joined a American teens
126 cities to repeat the same steps and it was when group of Black went to the high
thing. Martin Luther King Muslims and school and stood
giving his I Have a made the Muslim up to the millions
Dream speech. It was on nation grow from of protestors
August 28, 1963 and 400-10,000. He which this event
200,000 supporters thought that helped the court
came and surprisingly Whites were decide about the
50,000 of them were enemies but later Brown vs. Topeka
on figured out Board of
that the real Education.
enemy is hatred
his family was
killed in his house
and he was
assassinated a
and he was
assassinated a
Ballroom.
W.E.B. Du Bois was a man
who inspired African
Americans to believe, have
hope, and to fight even
though they were struggling
with segregation. He wrote
over 20 books and 100
essays about segregation.
Selma to Montgomery march fo
to leave Selma but to only get b
went all the way to the capital a
Act of 1965.
African Americans protested aga
seating they rode taxis and carp
then they won their fight.
In Birmingham a man illegally pu
Street Baptist turn Church steps
causing death to 4 African
as a meeting place for civil right
sentenced $100 fine and 6 mont
Written by Martin L. King when he
segregation and so he wrote a lette
The birthplace of Martin Luth
Georgia. The house that he w
Church and Sweet Auburn ne
segregation during the days o
decided that his childhood w
When 9 African James Meredith was Medgar Ever was a James Chaney, segregation.
American teens the first African secretary for the Andrew Goodman,
went to the high American who NAACP. He was and Michael A group of experimenters dec
school and stood attended the fighting against Schwerner went out segregation to see if they wor
up to the millions University of segregation but his to investigate a faced beatings in Anniston an
of protestors Mississippi after fight ended in a church burning set the police came only after the
which this event being in the Air horrible way. One by the Ku Klux Klan though they were 2 blocks aw
helped the court Force. He met great day he pulled up to but when they got to riders were protected only aft
decide about the resistance against his house and got the [police and so President Kennedy ma
Brown vs. Topeka his look and many out of his car while department they segregated seating in vehicles
Board of riots were made carrying T-shirts were arrested
Education. during his 3 years saying “Jim Crow released and then
there. When he must go” and right arrested again. After
graduated he wrote then and there he that they were taken
a book about his was shot. somewhere beaten
struggles in those 3 and shot to death.
years.
struggles in those 3 and shot to death.
years.
Du Bois was a man
spired African
ans to believe, have
nd to fight even
they were struggling
gregation. He wrote
books and 100
about segregation.
o Montgomery march for voting rights. 600 people gathered and all of them tried
e Selma but to only get beaten by police with clubs. But the marchers went on and
l the way to the capital and so President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights
Americans protested against segregated
they rode taxis and carpooled for 381 days
ey won their fight.
ngham a man illegally put 122 dynamites on the 16th
aptist turn Church steps and next a big explosion
death to 4 African-American kids. The church was used
eting place for civil rights leaders. The man was
ed $100 fine and 6 months in jail.
Martin L. King when he was taken to jail because he did march of protest against
n and so he wrote a letter there in the jail about his act.
birthplace of Martin Luther King is on 501 Auburn Avenue, in Atlanta,
gia. The house that he was born in was surrounded by Ebenezer Baptist
ch and Sweet Auburn neighborhood where the family had faced
egation during the days of the Jim Crow laws. When he grew up he
ded that his childhood was bad enough and it was time to stop
up of experimenters decided to test the laws against
gation to see if they worked. The experimenters
beatings in Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama and
olice came only after the beatings were done even
gh they were 2 blocks away. Later on the freedom
s were protected only after being treated horribly
o President Kennedy made a rule to not have
gated seating in vehicles and interstate terminals.