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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 🔪
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🎗️
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✊
was a social campaign that encouraged African Americans to stop riding busses in order to protest against racial segregation -
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 ✊
This protest aimed to end any and all racial segregation, an entire community gathered in order to accomplish this -
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 🔪
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 🎗️
pushed to remove race-based discrimination and restrictions on voting. -
Fair Housing Act 🎗️
Prohibited discrimination in housing against people of any race, gender, or religion. -
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 🌸
supported the Equal Rights Amendment, she became the first black woman in Congress -
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 📜
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-✊