Civil Rights

By giacobib

  • Plessy v.s. Ferguson

    Separate, but equal

  • Brown v board of education

    Supreme court declaring state public school laws unconstitutional

  • Rosa Parks

    Huge roll in Montgomery bus boycott, "first lady of civil rights"

  • Montgomery bus boycott

    African american workers refused to use public buses until segregation changes were made for equality on public transportation.

  • Little rock 9

    9 African american students enrolled to an all white school, they were initially prevented the school and then the students, until the military came and forced to let the students in.

  • sit ins

    Non violent protesters in all white stores/restaurants, eventually getting rid of some store segregation laws.

  • Martin Luther King/Ghandi/Thoreau/Randolph

    Gandhi and MLK promoted non violent protest, and Thoreau protested against slavery in the 1800's,

  • Freedom riders

    Civil rights activist riding public transport into segregated south.

  • March on Washington

    March for jobs and economic and civil rights for African Americans.

  • march on Birmingham Alabama

    Movement for integration of African Americans in segregated southern public schools.

  • civil rights act of 1964

    Outlaws discrimination based on race, gender, region.

  • 24th Amendment

    all US citizens are allowed to vote.

  • voting acts rights of 1965

    Eliminated any racial inequality in voting.(in the south, literacy tests)

  • race riots

    Racial, economical, and political forces, made inner city poverty, of curse along with segregation created race riots.

  • march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    protest march from Selma Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.
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  • de jure vs de facto segregation

    De jure segregation was enforced by law(jim crow laws), and de facto segregation was not.

  • Molcom X

    muslim minister,Promoted human rights

  • Thurgood Marshall

    First African American judge.