civil rights era (unit9)

By KERIM.SARI

  • 1950 Sweatt v. Painter:

    . Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later.

  • 1954 Hernandez v. Texas

    Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the conviction of an agricultural labourer, Pete Hernandez, for murder should be overturned because Mexican Americans had been barred from participating in both the jury that indicted him and the jury that convicted him.

  • May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional

  • December 1, 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • summer of 1957 Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • April 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • August 13, 1961 Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • August 28, 1963 : Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • January 23, 1964 24th Amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

  • July 2, 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964

    prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

  • August 6, 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965

    It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.

  • April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • April 11, 1968 Civil Rights Act of 1968

    popularly known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibits discrimination concerning the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and sex.

  • Jul 16, 1969 First Man on the Moon

  • June 23, 1972 Title IX

    prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on sex.