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1) Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a court case that started in a district court in Topeka, Kansas. The plaintiffs were thirteen Topeka parents fighting for their kids to be allowed in white schools. One parent was Oliver Brown, father to Linda who had to go to a school a mile away when there was a white school seven blocks away. The district court ruled against the plaintiffs under the law that schools can remain separate but equal. The case was than taken to the Supreme Court, who... -
2) Brown v. Board of Education
took the side of the plaintiffs, and required the desegregation of schools across America. However they did not give a specific date on which schools would have to desegregate. Brown vs Board of Education was important to the civil rights movement because it declared that the segregation of schools is unconstitutional. Even though they were still miles away from schools actually being desegregated it still was proof that the government was starting to understand that separate wasn’t equal. -
2) Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Court desegregated the busses in Montgomery. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was important part of the civil rights movement because it led to the desegregation of the bus systems. It was also important because it showed the african american community that they could make a difference with nonviolent mass protest, which gave them hope for equality. -
1) Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested because she wouldn’t move back for a white man on the bus when the white section was filled. This arrest led to a boycott of the busses by the blacks (majority of the busses customers) in Montgomery, Mississippi. This boycott was supported by the Montgomery Improvement Association and Women's Political Council. This boycott was able to succeed because of the people who walked and carpooled instead of taking the bus. The boycott ended on Dec. 20, 1956 when the Supreme... -
2)Woolworth Sit-Ins
resturants and to other parts of the United States. The students stayed strong even with KKK and others harassing and heckling them. Finally, in July, the national drugstore chains agree to serve all “properly dressed and well behaved people,” regardless of race. This was important because it not only got the drugstore to desegregate. It also got black and white people from the North, West, upper and mid South, Atlanta, and New Orleans to get involved in the Sit-ins, picket lines, and boycotts. -
1)Woolworth Sit-in's
Students from Bennett College for Women and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical started a sit-in at Woolworth's “whites only” lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They sat down and were refused service but stay until closing and then return the next day. The Greensboro students activate the telephone networks and spread the news all across the South. More and more students began to join the cause including Dudley High School students and white college students. The sit-ins spread to other... -
1) March on Washington
The march in Washington DC was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations who wanted jobs and freedom. The march had about 200,000 to 300,000 people participants. There were speechs made by the "Big Six" (MLK, James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip, Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young) including the famous "I Have a Dream" speech. After the march, King and other civil rights leaders met with President Kennedy at the white house. -
2) March on Washington
The march is said to have helped the passing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. This was important to the movement because it allowed civil rights activists like Martin Luther King Jr. to met with President Kennedy and discuss the possibility of passing of acts like the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act. The Kennedy administration was then committed to passing these bills and then after his assassination President Johnson was able to convince congress to pass these bills. -
1) Selma and the Voting Rights Act
In Selma, Alabama Martin Luther King Jr. started a Southern Christian Leadership Conference to pressure congress to pass a Voting Rights Act. They held marches to help on of which was attacked by white law enforcement officers. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. This act abolished literacy tests and poll taxes designed to disenfranchise African American voters, and gave the federal government the authority to take over voter registration in counties with a pattern. -
2) Selma and the Voting Rights Act
After he signed the legislation he announced that he would initiate lawsuits against four states that still required a poll tax to register. This was important because it was a great step forward in removing all the obstacles to the right to vote. It removed a lot of the fear that African Americans had about voting like literacy tests and poll taxes however there was still the fear of the intimidation, harassment, and assault they received.It was still a huge step in the right direction.
