Civil rights

Civil Rights

By virenderjeet

  • Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

    Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
    • African American and white students
      • Had segregation laws on all public school
      • They desegregated the school

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    • African Americans
    • Political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery
    • Segregation on public buses was ruled unconstitutional

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    • A group of 9 black students
    • They were enrolled into a all whit high school in little rock
    • They were bullied
    • Several of the little rock nine went to distinguish careers

  • Sit-Ins

    Sit-Ins
    • Martin Luther king jr. / African Americans
    • African Americans students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth lunch canter in North Carolina and refused to leave after being denied
    • Many protesters were arrested, but their actions made an immediate and lasting impact Woolworth and other establishments to change their segregationist policies

  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    • Groups of whites and African Americans civil rights activists
    • They tries to use Whites only restrooms and lunch counters at bus stations
    • They were arrested, It drew hundreds of new riders

  • Birmingham Demonstrations

    Birmingham Demonstrations
    • African Americans
    • A peaceful walk of high school students were sprayed with high pressure water jet from a fire hose
    • They won the protest

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    • African Americans
    • A massive protest, 25,000 people, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by AA a century after emancipation
    • They got their rights