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What was segregated in the South in the 1950s and 1960s ?

What was segregated in the South in the 1950s and 1960s ?. Take a look at the people, places and events of the Civil Rights Movement. 1954. Brown v Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas. 1955. The Murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. 1955. 1957.

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What was segregated in the South in the 1950s and 1960s ?

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  1. What was segregated in the South in the 1950s and 1960s?

  2. Take a look at the people, places and events of the Civil Rights Movement.

  3. 1954 Brown v Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas

  4. 1955 The Murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi

  5. 1955

  6. 1957 The Little Rock Nine, as they later came to be called, were the first black teenagers to attend all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. These remarkable young African-American students challenged segregation in the deep South and won.

  7. 1959 James Lawson was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, on 22nd September, 1928. He became a divinity student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.Lawson organized student sit in demonstrations against segregated lunch counters in Nashville in November, 1959. This led to him being removed from the course by the university chancellor. As a result of his expulsion, 11 white teachers and a dean resigned from Vanderbilt.

  8. Ezell Blair Jr. David Richmond Joseph McNeil Franklin McCain February 1 North Carolina A&T At Greensboro 1960

  9. 1961 During the Freedom Rides, SNCC members rode buses through the deep southern states where discrimination and segregation were most prominent. A 1961 Supreme Court decision to end desegregation not only in travel, but also in bus terminal facilities, prompted a new set of Freedom Rides and SNCC's involvement. In 1961 a group of seven black and six white people, including John Lewis, left Washington, D.C. for New Orleans on two buses, a Trailways bus and a Greyhound bus.

  10. 1962 James Howard Meredith (1933- ), after being refused three times, was finally granted admission to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss.). The governor, Ross Barnett, blocked Meredith's admission, and the United States Federal Marshals, by force, escorted him to classes. A group of federal troops stayed around Meredith until he graduated in August of 1963 due to the racial tensions on campus.

  11. 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Mahalia Jackson March on Washington A Phillip Randolph Bayard Rustin

  12. How did the television set Affect the Civil Rights Movement?

  13. 1963 Theophilus Eugene (Bull) Connor was born in Dallas County, Alabama, in 1897. He was most famous for his staunch defense of racial segregation and for ordering the use of police dogs and fire hoses to disperse civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham during the spring of 1963.

  14. 1963

  15. 1963 Addie Mae Collins, 14; Carol Denise McNair, 11; Carole Robertson, 14; Cynthia Diane Wesley, 14 The 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four young girls, shocked the city of Birmingham and the world.

  16. 1964 Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi

  17. James Earl Chaney Andrew Goodman Michael Schwerner Twenty-four-year-old Michael Schwerner came to Mississippi In January of 1964 with his wife Rita after having been hired as a CORE field worker.  In his application for the CORE position, Schwerner, a native of New York City,  wrote "I have an emotional need to offer my services in the South."  Schwerner added that he hoped to spend "the rest of his life" working for an integrated society.

  18. James Earl Chaney Andrew Goodman Michael Schwerner James Chaney was born May 30, 1943 in Meridian, Mississippi. In 1963, he joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). In 1964, CORE led a massive voter registration and desegregation campaign in Mississippi called Freedom Summer. As part of the Freedom Summer activities, Chaney was riding with two white activists in Mississippi when they were attacked and killed by the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. Chaney, being black, was able to go places white COREmembers were Afraid to go.  To Mississippi whites, Chaney was "as inconspicuous as an alley cat."  When the Schwerners arrived in January to assume direction of the Meridian office, they found Chaney to be their most willing volunteer. 

  19. James Earl Chaney Andrew Goodman Michael Schwerner In April 1964, Andrew Goodman applied for and was accepted Into the Mississippi Summer Project.  Although not seeing himself as a professional reformer, Goodman knew that his life had been somewhat sheltered and thought that the experience would be educational and useful. Andy Goodman was only 20 when he died on Rock Cut Road on June 21, 1964, near the end of his first full day in Mississippi.

  20. 2007

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