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Civil Rights Movement
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Plessy v. Fergusun
A black 30 year old shoemaker, named Homer Plessy, was put in jail for sittin in a "white" East Louisiana Railroad train car. -
Brown v. Board of Education
It helped ban segergation of children out of public schools. This is now known as one of the greatest Supreme Court desisions as the 20th century. -
Montgomery Bus Desegregates
A 40 year old black seamstress refuses to give up he seat to a black man, therefore she was arrested. Rosa Parkls was a part of an orginization called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Also known as the (NAACP). -
Sit in at Lunch
Four black students from the North Caroline Agricultural were refused for the service that they had politly requested.When they were asked to leave thay remained in the seats that they had sat in. -
Interracial Marriage is ruled unconstitutional by supreme court
A black woman and a white man where married in spite of laws placed against it. The Lovings where convicted of violating Section 20-58 of the Virgina Code. -
A Voting Rights Act is Approved
By 1965 concerted efforts to break the grip of state disfranchisement had been under way for some time, but had achieved only modest success overall and in some areas had proved almost entirely ineffectual. -
Head of Mississippi NAACP is MURDERED.
Medger Evers was murdered on the front steps of his home. He was struck in the back of the head with a bullet fired from a rifle and it rococheted into his home. -
Johnson sings the Civil Rights Act of 1968
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law. This act provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin.
