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Brown VS. Board Of Education
In 1954 the Supreme Court decided to combine several cases and issue a general ruling on segregation in schools one of the cases involve the young African-American girl named Linda Brown who was denied to her neighborhood school in Topeka Kansas because of her race she was told to attend an all black school across town on May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in anonymously in brown versus Board of Education of to pick a Kansas that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott had a successful outcome several African-American leaders form the Montgomery improvement Association to run the boycott into negotiate with city leaders they look to 26-year-old pastor named Martin Luther King Jr to leave them Dr. King encourage people to continue their protest but crossing the protest had to be peaceful The protest ended in November 1956 when the Supreme Court declared Alabama’s laws requiring segregation on buses unconstitutional -
Crisis In Little Rock (Little Rock Nine)
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African-American students who are enrolled in Little Rock Central high school in 1957 there in Rome it was followed by the little rock crisis in which students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus the governor of Arkansas -
New Civil Rights Legislation
On September 9, 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the civil rights act of 1957. The act marked the first occasion since reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. Most importantly the civil rights act of 1957 signaled a growing federal commitment to the cause of civil rights. -
The March On Washington
Civil rights leaders kept the pressure on legislators and the president by planning a large scale march on Washington on August 28, 1963 more than 250,000 demonstrators African Americans and white people gathered near the Lincoln Memorial and they heard speeches and sing songs start taking them delivered a powerful speech calling for freedom and equality for all Americans -
The Selma March
There’s so much to Montgomery marches were three protest marches held in 1965 along with 54 mile highway from Selma Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery
