Civil Rights Era

By adriannacorona1999

  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws
    The Jim Crow Laws are a set of laws that restrited on voting qualifications and that left the African american ppulation econopmicaly and politicaly powerless.

  • The movement peaked

    The movement peaked
    The movement peaked during teh 1950s and 1960s the African men and women and whites organized and led the moovement

  • The Brown Decision

    The Brown Decision
    The supreme court decisio Brown vs. Boaard of education of Topeka, Kansas revield a new era to the Civil rights.

  • KKK Citizen Council

    KKK Citizen Council
    The Ku Klux Klan aka the KKK organized a council to desgregation and sometimes resorted to violence.

  • Montgomery Boycott

    Montgomery Boycott
    The blacks had organized a boycott of city buses of the policy of sereated seating

  • NAACP

    NAACP
    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Over time they had filed a procession of court cases.

  • SCLC

    SCLC
    The Southeren Christian Leadership Conferene was heald in 1957 in Alanta GA. The conference included the black miniter, Martin Luther King, Jr. as the head of the SCLC.

  • The Movement Legacy

    The Movement Legacy
    15 years after brown only one percent of the blacks students were attending a public school.