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American civil rights
the origins are that civil rights started when slavery was in the US but soon the civil war occurred banning slavery. in the 1950s and 60s, a surge of civil rights movements rose and constantly protested their need for freedom. -
Rosa Parks and Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa parks was a black woman who was on the bus one day and refused to move from her seat when the bus driver told her to. this caused her to become the symbol of the american civil rights movements and this made 50,000 blacks protesting by not using the buses which severely dropped the revenue of Montgomery Buses and this lead to whites and blacks no longer being segregated on buses. Rosa parks said that when she was told to move, the image of Emmett Till`s corpse came to her. -
Funeral
When the funeral date for Emmett tills funeral came. His casket was tempt open for everyone to see what prejudice can do and get away with. It was pretty much the ugly truth. After the media broadcasted the photos of the mutilated body of Emmett, the civil rights movement soon took off -
Emmett Till murder and the beginning of the civil rights movements
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi. He was at a store one day when he whistled to a white woman which was seen as an offence in Mississippi. The woman husband and brother found Emmett Till and took him with them to a barn and beat him and soon finished him off with a shot to the head. The men dumped his body in the Tallahatchie river. His body was found 3 days later and his mother along with his body went back to Chicago. -
Little rock nine part 1
In 1957, the US Supreme Court ruled that blacks and whites had to be desegregated in schools. In Central high school at Little rock Arkansas. 9 black students -Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls—were to be integrated into the school. -
Little rock Nine Part 2
On 4 September 1957, the first day of school at Central High, a white mob gathered in front of the school, and Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering. The Students did enter after lawyers and policemen were able to get the students into the school. On the 9th of September, President Eisenhower Deployed troops from the 101st Airborne to protect the students coming in and out of the school. -
civil rights act of 1964 part 2
it paved the way for 2 more major laws: the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which banned discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of property. Although racial violence and prejudice would continue on into the late 60s, the racial tensions would eventually die down and brought to its knees. -
civil rights act of 1964 and the pursuit of desegregation part 1
The civil rights act of 1964 was the significant event that ended much of the major civil rights fighting for the coming years and it ended the employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. it has impacted significantly to this day and is considered one of greatest Achievements for the civil rights movements. It was proposed by John F. Kennedy but unfortunately ,never saw it signed but was later signed by his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Modern impact
The civil rights movements and events are one of the most talked about subjects of the 20th century. It has impacted us in modern culture like in TV, Movies, Music, law, education and even peoples mindsets. However, racial tensions are on the rise although this time is is fuelled by the mainstream media corporations, misinformation and political divide. History is repeating itself and soon the modern day racial tensions will be regarded along with the rights movements of the 20th century.