Civil Rights

By Muyuxing

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    When the US Supreme Court ruled "Plessy v. Ferguson" to establish the legitimacy of "separation but equality" measures against blacks, it would be a serious blow to the black human rights of the South, the Supreme Court.

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  • Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka
    In the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, schools that determined that apartheid did not provide fair education for black students, so public schools should be ethnically mixed. After 58 years, this legal concept was overthrown, and a series of African-American rights movements began.

  • Bus Event

    Bus Event
    Dr.King successfully led the city's black citizens to fully oppose the black and white isolation measures on the bus. After a year of long-term struggle, the bus in Montgomery was finally forced to cancel the apartheid measures. (https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/realtime/article/20150404/53597182)

  • I Have A Dream

    I Have A Dream
    Dr. King gathered 250,000 people in the square in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, and published his famous speech, "I Have a Dream." The pressure of public opinion generated by this gathering finally forced Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act in the following year. (https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/i-have-dream-address-delivered-march-washington-jobs-and-freedom)

  • Poor People's Campaign

    Poor People's Campaign
    Dr. King deeply recognized that black people are suffering from discrimination in American society. Most of them are caused by economic inequality. The economic right is the essence and the root cause. The citizenship is only decoration. So he turned the struggle for citizenship into the struggle for economic power and launched the "Poor People's Campaign".(https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/poorpeoplescampaign)

  • Martin Luther King’s death

    Martin Luther King’s death
    At 9:30 pm on April 3, Martin Luther King started his last speech at the Mason Church called "Mountain"; at 6:01 pm on April 4th, Martin Luther King in Memphis The second floor of the Lorraine Motel was assassinated by racists, at the age of 39.