Civil Rights era

By elyse.ford12

  • The Supreme Court Declares Bus Segregation Unconstitutional

    After losing revenue the local bus company had agreed to desegregate their busses and a Federal District Court ruled that segregation on the buses was illegal.

  • The Desegregation of Interstate Travel (1960)

    On December 1960 that interstate buses and bus terminals were required to integrate.

  • The 1960 Presidential Election

    Republican, Richard M. Dixon and Democrat, John F. Kennedy had a very close running in the election. They both avoided civil rights issues so that they wouldn't upset the south.

  • The Supreme Court Orders Ole Miss to Integrate (1962)

    There was an unfair acceptance rate with the Brown vs. Board. This would turn white men on activates so that it would be equal.

  • The March on Washington (1963)

    This march was held to advocate for the civil rights of African Americans.

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

  • The 1964 Presidential Election

    The first presidential election after the ratification of the 23rd amendment which granted electoral votes to Washington. Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson won.

  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965

    This law signed by Lyndon B. Johnson that aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

  • Lyndon Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" speech

    The speech was to create the voting right act of 1965.

  • The Kerner Commission Report (1968)

    The outbreak of saying that our country is divided by whites and blacks.

  • The 1968 Election

    Richard Nixon, the Republican candidate, won a three way race in the presidential election of 1968 against Independent George Wallace and Democrat Hubert Humphrey.

  • The Attica Prison Riot (1971)

    A prison was overcrowded and the treatment was inhumane. Inmates took over for four days, after that state troopers and correctional officers took the prison back.

  • The National Black Political Convention (1972)

    Delegates created a National Black Political Agenda with stated goals including the election of a proportionate number of black representatives to Congress, community control of schools, national health insurance, and the elimination of capital punishment.

  • The Federal Court Order to Integrate Boston Schools

    Schools were desegregated.

  • The Bakke Case and the Status of Affirmative Action in 1978

    A school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances.