Civil Rights

By David Thompson
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    Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Providing for separate railway carriages for the white and colored races

  • Brown vs. B.O.E.

    Brown vs. B.O.E.
    Decided that racial segregation in schools violated the equal protection clauses of the 14th amendment.

  • Rosa Parks gets arrested

    for not getting up out of her seat

  • Montgomery Bus Boycot

    Montgomery Bus Boycot
    Blacks boycotted the bus because of the arrest of Parks

  • James Meredith + Union of Mississippi

    First African American to be accepted into the University of Mississippi.

  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins
    A group of people occupies a place as a form of protest

  • "I Have A Dream"

    "I Have A Dream"
    Famous speech

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Landmark piece of civil rights and us labor laws.

  • Death of Malcolm X

    Death of Malcolm X
    Assassinated by a black muslim

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Allowed African Americans the right to vote

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolish slavery.

  • Death of MLK

    SHOT during a speech

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited discrimination.

  • 14th Amendment

    Citizen rights and equal protection of the law.

  • 15th Amendment

    Rights to all citizens in the united states.

  • David and Sidney