Civil Rights Movement Timeline Project

1. Civil Rights Movement Timeline Project Period 6 By:Dane Bottomley, Lisa Davis, Jesus Flores, Devin Simons, & Aiyana Trujillo

2. 1948-1951 Events During This Time Period Aiyana Trujillo On December 4, 1949 the first African American police officers were hired. They were restricted from arresting white people, carrying guns, and could only be in African-American neighborhoods. With the staggering power of 20,000 voters, the city's first black policemen are hired. Persuaded by John Wesley Dobbs, and Mayor William B. Hartsfield integrating the police force with eight African-American police officers.

3. 1952-1954 Brown v. Board of Education Lisa Davis • All over the country, black students as well as parents were angry over the terrible conditions of their schools. It did not make sense for a student such as Linda Brown to ride long distance every day to a rundown black school when their was a better (white) school in their neighborhood. • On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court agreed stated that segregated schools are permanently unequal. To separate black children from white because of their race (the Court wrote) makes a feeling of inferiority to their status in a community that may affect them in ways that may never be fixed. • The Brown v. Board of Education angered many white Southerners who did not feel that Blacks deserved the same education as whites and thought against having their children attend schools with black children.

4. 1952-1954 Walking for Justice Lisa Davis Four days after the Brown ruling was handed down by the Supreme court, Jo Ann Robinson wrote a letter asking for equal treatment on city buses. Although making up 75% of Montgomery's bus riders, blacks were still forced into paying the driver in the front and exiting only to re-enter through the back of the bus. Those who denied to do so would be slapped or beaten by the driver. At the age of 22, Hilary brooks was shot dead by the police in 1952 after arguing with a bus driver.The Montgomery bus boycott took place and succeeded due to black woman refusing bus services and using taxis, carpooling, walking, and hitchhiking as transportation instead until they were granted fair seating.

5. 1952-1954 Pictures Lisa Davis Brown v. Board of Education Walking for Justice

6. 1955-1957 The Murder of Emmett Till Devin Simons Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American boy who, while staying with his cousin's grandfather, was kidnapped and violently murdered by Roy Brant and J.W. Milam for speaking to a white woman working at a grocery store. "When asked why he did it, Milam responded: 'Well, what else could I do? He thought he was as good as any white man' " (Bullard 7). When charged with murder in front of an all white male jury, the duo was fount not guilty after one hour of deliberation. Till's murder is described as being the spark that set fire to the civil rights movement because of its raw display of racial violence, and unjust discrimination towards African Americans.

7. 1960-1961 SNCC Sit-In On February 1, 1960, four black students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College - Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, David Richmond and Ezell Blair, Jr. - ordered coffee. The waitress refused to serve them unless they drank it while standing, since the counter only served white customers. The four students initiated a 'sit-in', wherein they sat at the counter peacefully, in nonviolent resistance to segregation that would become the hallmark of the Civil Rights Movement in later years. The next day they returned with more students, and sat in peaceful protest until the counter closed for the day. Students from other Southern colleges and universities followed with similar sit-ins, bringing about the desegregation of several student and public facilities. During the sit-ins, the young black protestors organized the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), which became a focal point for black youngsters involved in the movement.

8. 1961-Present Day Martin Luther King Jr. Jesus Flores After taking part in a non-violent protest, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from Birmingham city jail to the clergy men discussing his moral duty to spread his ideas and beliefs to other people. The letter was then published on June 12, 1963 and became an inspirational idol to many people, especially the African American population.

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