Civil right

By Cade bohac

  • 1954- brown vs. board of education

    1954- brown vs. board of education
    Blacks weren’t allowed in white schools. This court ruling changed that all. Black finally made the change and got into the white schools.

  • Emmet till

    Emmet till
    Emmet till was originally from Chicago. He was visting his cousin in Mississippi. They went to a store and he whistled. She told her husband. Later that night they went into his home and beat and murdered him and left him for dead.

  • Rosa parks and bus boycott

    Rosa parks and bus boycott
    Rosa parks was the right women for the job. The bus driver asked her to move. She refused, the police were called and they came and arrested her.

  • Sclc

    Sclc
    SCLC was a African American civil rights group based out of Atlanta Georgia. Martin Luther king jr was the first president of this group.

  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9
    Little Rock nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock central high school. They were prevented entrance by the governor of Arkansas, Orval faubas.

  • Greensboro 4

    Greensboro 4
    Series of sit ins were a series of nonviolent protests. They happened on February to July 1960. Primarily in the Woolworth store.

  • Freedom riders

    Freedom riders
    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington,[1][2] was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963

  • Civil rights act of 1964

    Civil rights act of 1964
    In 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.

  • March on Selma

    March on Selma
    The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.

  • Voting rights act of 1965

    Voting rights act of 1965
    The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.