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The Civil Rights Act of 1875
This act outlawed segregation in the public by letting blacks and whites should be allowed to all facilities such as bathroom stalls, hotels, inns, land, water, etc. This act wasn't enforced at all since the all-white Supreme Court declared the act unconstitutional. None of the whites gave it a chance but this is one of the events that had started the Civil Rights Movement. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Many of the blacks had to go to school where they only allowed black people. Even if the whites school was closer to them than the blacks, they were forced to go to the blacks school no matter what. over 12 million black people had this case where whites schools were more closer to them than blacks. Within a year of the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, more than 500 school districts had desegregated their classrooms. They allowed the blacks and the whites to sit side by side in the class. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks had went inside a bus and sat in the front rows. Now, the front row only allows the whites to sit and the back rows were for the blacks. A white male had entered the bus and the bus driver ordered Rosa Parks to move to the back so the man could sit there. Rosa Parks refused to move and stand up for herself and all the African American in a way. The bus driver threatened to call the police on her and she simply said go ahead. Rosa parks wasn't afraid to stand up for herself. -
Walking For Justice
Martin Luther King Jr. had led a group full of African Americans in the African American Community. On the night of December 5, 1955, Martin Luther King Jr.had made the following decleration to a crowd that had 5,000 people to 15,000 people. King's speech brought people together and made the African American a sight of relief that someone is standing up for them and that they have someone who's voice reaches high up there with great leaders such as John F. Kennedy. -
Civil Rights Bill
In 1963, John F. Kennedy had sent Congress a bill that would guarente equal access to all public accommodations and gave the U.S. attorney the right to take action against schools who do not allow blacks and whites in the same school. Two men named A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin had form something called the March to Washington as a way of persuasion for Congress to pass the bill. -
I have a dream...
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people came across the country, including 75,000 white people, to set foot on the nation's capital. When they have arrived there, they went to the Washington's Monument and marched to the Lincoln Memorial. When they had arrived there, they began to listen to people who were speaking such as Martin Luther King Jr. hearing his famous "I have a dream..." speach. They wanted Congress to pass the Civil Rights Bill. -
John F. Kennedy Assassination
John F. Kennedy had been assassinated a couple months later after the Marching to Washington. President Lydon B. Johnson had taken over John F. Kennedy's position and he had signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He promised to fulfill John F. Kennedy's work. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibited discimination because of race. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
President Lydon B. Johnson had submitted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to Congress and Congress had passed it. This act didn't allow there to be a literacy test that many of the African Americans hadn't passed and this is because of the unfair education that they had been getting. The act increased 50% the amount of African American voters to vote for who they wish. Martin Luther King Jr. is shaking President Lydon B. Johnsons hand. -
Black Panther
The Black Panther was a party who fought police brutality in the ghetto. It was former in Oakland, California and the party advocated self-sufficiency for African-American communities, as well as full employment and decent housing. Also, they didn't want young black males going into the Vietnam War because they thought it was unfair of how many had been drafted into the war. -
Martin Luther King Jr's Death
Martin Luther King Jr had been assassinated the day he was standing outside his hotel balcony when a guy had shot him with a high powered rifle. The reaction to Kings death had been terrible but right. Over 100 cities had been upset with this and created riots at every corner demanding rights that they deserved to make them or others equal as them. Later on, Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which gave equal rights as jobs and education as the whites had.
