Civil Rights Movement

  • Sweatt v. Painter 📜

    Sweatt v. Painter 📜
    A supreme court case that challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine. The Court held that the Equal Protection Clause required that Sweatt be admitted to the university
  • Emmett Tills Murder 🔪

    Emmett Tills Murder 🔪
    A fourteen-year-old boy was kidnapped, beaten, and lynched after being accused by a white woman in her family grocery store in Mississippi
  • Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association🎗️

    Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association🎗️
    Created to fight for civil rights, They campaigned to advance "the general status of Montgomery, to improve race relations, and to uplift the general tenor of the community"
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott✊

    Montgomery Bus Boycott✊
    was a social campaign that encouraged African Americans to stop riding busses in order to protest against racial segregation
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957 🎗️

    Civil Rights Act of 1957 🎗️
    The first civil rights legislation to be passed by Congress, It empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
  • Albany Campaign ✊

    Albany Campaign ✊
    This protest aimed to end any and all racial segregation, an entire community gathered in order to accomplish this
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964🌸

    Civil Rights Act of 1964🌸
    prohibited discrimination in public places, this did not only fight against racial discrimination but religious and sexist discrimination as well.
  • Assassination of Malcolm X 🔪

    Assassination of Malcolm X 🔪
    He was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist, he was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement, and he was shot multiple times in Manhattan
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965 🎗️

    Voting Rights Act of 1965 🎗️
    pushed to remove race-based discrimination and restrictions on voting.
  • Fair Housing Act 🎗️

    Fair Housing Act 🎗️
    Prohibited discrimination in housing against people of any race, gender, or religion.
  • Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools📜

    Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools📜
    aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v Board of education
  • Shirley Chisolm’s Presidential Campaign 🌸

    Shirley Chisolm’s Presidential Campaign 🌸
    supported the Equal Rights Amendment, she became the first black woman in Congress
  • Barbara Jordan’s Address at the Democratic National Convention 🌸

    Barbara Jordan’s Address at the Democratic National Convention 🌸
    she became the first African-American, and the first woman, to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention.
  • University of California Regents vs. Bakke 📜

    University of California Regents vs. Bakke 📜
    held that a university's admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause
  • Key

    court case- 📜 Achievement- 🎗️ no violence- 🌸
    opposition violence-🔪 Protest-✊