Civil Rights Movement

By nayeligalvan

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    This was the debate that stated there were separate facilities fro segregation. "separate but equal"

  • The Integration of Major League Baseball

    Debut day for Jackie Robinson making it into the Major League Baseball and broke the 60 year ban of African Americans

  • The Integration of the Armed Forces

    There will be no more segregation in the army and completely abolishing segregation in the army.

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    It challenged the "separate but equal' doctrine of segregation of public facilities.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional

  • The Bus Boycott of Montgomery Alabama

    A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama

  • The Integration of Little Rock High School

    The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1957

    The first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

  • The Freedom Rides of !960

    Groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.

  • The Greensboro Four

    Four African American cause sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States

  • The 24th Amendment

    Prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.

  • The Integration of the University of Mississippi

    Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school.

  • The Integration of the University of Alabama

    George Wallace was standing in front of the University Of Alabama to block African Students from entering the University.

  • The March on Washington

    The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.

  • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    President John F. Kennedy is shot and killed as his motorcade in Dallas, Texas. He was killed by a racist man who was with segregation.

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    A landmark civil rights and U.S. labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

  • The Assassination of Malcolm X

    Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, who was also shot and killed by a racist

  • The March on Selma, Alabama

    The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply racist policies

  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965

    The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

  • The Assassination of Martin Luther KIng Jr.

    Famous for "I have a dream" speech. Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968

  • The Passage of Title IX

    The passage of Title IX forced athletic departments to divert financial resources into sports for women