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American civil rights movement, the Civil Rights Hot Spots
In the 1950s, the civil rights movement found its voice in places that routinely discriminated against blacks: schools, lunch counters, public buses, and terminals.
Travel to civil rights hot spots on this map, and track the movement through its most tumultuous years.
1. May 17, 1954, | Topeka, Kansas
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregated schools are unconstitutional after an African American man, Oliver Brown, sues the Topeka Board of Education to admit his daughter Linda to a neighborhood school.
2. September 23, 1955, | Sumner, Mississippi
With the nation and journalists from around the world watching, two white men are acquitted of having lynched Emmett Till, a black boy from Chicago. They will later admit to the brutal crime. Emmett Till's murder angers many who seek civil rights.
3. December 1, 1955, | Montgomery, Alabama
A 43-year-old African American woman, Rosa Parks, is arrested after refusing to give up her seat to whites on a public bus. A local Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr., leads a year-long bus boycott that results in a U.S. Supreme Court case. Court-ordered bus desegregation will finally take effect on December 21, 1956.
4. September 4, 1957, | Little Rock, Arkansas
Despite court-ordered school desegregation, Arkansas National Guardsmen and an ugly mob prevent nine African American students from entering Central High School. President Dwight Eisenhower sends federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine to school.
5. February 1, 1960, | Greensboro, North Carolina
Four African American teenagers sit down at a Woolworth's whites-only lunch counter. Non-violent sit-ins spread to over 100 Southern cities as young people confront segregationist businesses and demanded change. The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.) emerges out of the sit-in movement.
6. October 19, 1960, | Atlanta, Georgia
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested along with 35 other people at an Atlanta sit-in. The minister is sentenced to four months' labor on a road gang. Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy risks angering Southern white supporters by pressing for King's release. African Americans turn out to vote for Kennedy several weeks later when he is elected president by a slim margin.
7. May 14, 1961, | Anniston, Alabama
Interracial groups of bus passengers organized by the Congress of Racial Equality traveled from Washington, D.C. through the South, challenging segregation. Met along the way by angry whites — including Ku Klux Klan members -- many of the non-violent Freedom Riders are beaten brutally. A Mother's Day attack in Anniston, Alabama, is the first major incident to make headlines worldwide. Despite the assaults, Freedom Riders continue through the fall until the federal government intervenes to enforce desegregation.
8. December 16, 1961, | Albany, Georgia
Arrested with over 250 other non-violent demonstrators, Martin Luther King Jr. obtains an oral agreement from the city to end discrimination. The city drags its feet and, when King leads more protests in summer of 1962, the city attorney obtains a federal injunction preventing more demonstrations. Unable to contest a federal ruling, civil rights leaders retreat, recognizing they need a better strategy.
9. October 1, 1962, | Oxford, Mississippi
James Meredith becomes the first black student to integrate the University of Mississippi, following a Supreme Court decision in his favor. A violent mob of enraged white people rises up the night of September 30, after Meredith arrives in Oxford. By morning, two people are dead and 160 federal marshals are injured.
10. January 14, 1963, | Birmingham, Alabama
Elected governor by a landslide, George Wallace calls for "segregation forever." Several months later, Birmingham police attack nonviolent protesters with dogs, clubs, and high-pressure fire hoses. In June, Wallace will make a "stand in the schoolhouse door," blocking black students from the University of Alabama.
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