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Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws began in the late 19th ccentury state and local governments passed segregation laws, know as Jim Crow laws, and mandated restrictions on voting qualifications that left the black population economically and politically powerless. An example of the Jim Crow laws is just like the picture shown there were seperate schools, water fountains, bathrooms, restrunts for black and white. -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Although the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People started in 1909 it didn't really come into play until 1954. A primary target of supremacist groups was the NAACP. -
The Start of the Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement can be defined as "a mass popular movement to secure for African equal access to and opportunites for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship." -
Brown vs. Board
Brown vs. Board was a U.S. supreme Court decision of Topeka, Kansas , it had to do with the stuggle for civil rights. The decision outlawed racial segregation in public schools. -
Rosa Parks
In 1955 black in Montgomery, Ala., organized a boycot of city in protest of the policy of segregatd seating. Lasting 381days the boycott instigated by Rosa Parks, succeeded in integating the seating. It also led to the formation in 1957 of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), in Atlanat Ga. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was the head of Southern Christain Leadership Confernce (SCLC). They had a national organization in Atlata, Ga. King also led a 87-km march form selma to Montgomery because of the two failed attempts for voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act
President Jonhson signed the Voting Rights Act. -
Black Power
Civil rights activists were turning their attention to race discrimination in the urban North and West. -
Black Panther
There was a call for racial separatism and the principle of self defense against white violence, Both of which were contrary tothe ideals of more traditonal activists who favored racial integration and passive resistance. A leading group with-in the black-power stuggle was the Black Panthers. -
The Movement Legacy
As lates as 1969, 15 years after Brown, only 1 percent of the black studnts in the Deep South states were attending public schools with whites. After a series of legal cases in teh late 1960's the federal courts finally dismanteld segregated schools by requiring school districts to implement plans, such as school district rezoning, that would bring black and white school children and faculty under one roof. IN 1971, the Supreme Court upheld school busing as a viable means of meeting integration
