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Brown v Board of education
This decision, handed down by the supreme court of the United States, has been described as the time this launched the modern civil rights movement. Following years of protest, led initially by black students and their parents at Molton High School in Virginia The Nationwide Association for the advancement of (colored people), made five cases of pressuring the school system. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a civil rights protest which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery Alabama, to protest set apart from each other seating. The boycott happened on December 5 1955 to and went on till December 20 1956, and is noticed as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against forcing them to set apart. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American women was arrested and fined after she didn't want to give up her seat to a white man. -
Little Rock Nine
They were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test Brown v Board of education a landmark 1954 supreme court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.On September 4 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National guard to block the black students from entering the school. -
Interstate commerce commission
On November 1st 1961 the interstate commerce commission which was started by John F. Kennedy association issued a order. This allowed passengers to sit wherever they choose on buses (white) and (black) signs came down in the final separation of drinking fountains, toilets, and waiting rooms were separated along with restaurants and cafes in the bus stations began serving people. -
New York School Boycott
In one of the largest demonstrations of the civil rights movement, many parents, students and civil rights advocates took part in a citywide boycott of the New York City public school system to inticate their full support for the full integration of the city’s public school and an end to de facto segregation. The organization sole objective was to render the racial imbalance of African and Puerto rican schools. -
Voting Rights Act
Was signed and put into law by president Lyndon B. Johnson, wanted to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that stopped African Americans from being allowed to vote as promised under the 15th amendment in the U.S constitution. The voting rights act is considered one of the most far reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S history. -
SCOPE project
The southern Christian Leadership conference started an inventive grassroots organizing campaign, The summer community organization and political education project. Under the direction of world war two war veteran Hosea Williams want to build on the momentum of the Medgar Evers registered drivers also increased. -
Malcolm X
The activist and outspoken public voice of the black muslim beliefs challenge the main part of the civil rights movement and the nonviolent chase of interrogation champaign by Martin Luther King Jr. He persuaded followers to defend themselves against white aggression. Malcolm was born little, changed his last name to X to signify rejection of his name. After Malcolm’s death in 1965 his bestselling book (The Autobiography Of Malcolm X) made his popular ideas about young blacks -
Fair Housing Act
As amended it doesn’t allow discrimination in the sale as of rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing related transactions as of race, color national origin religion, or sex type. The goal is a unitary housing market in which a person’s past and personnel doesn’t unpredictable restricts access. That suggests open housing which were enforced early in the twelfth century. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
On November 1st 1961 the interstate commerce commission which was started by John F. Kennedy association issued a order. This allowed passengers to sit wherever they choose on buses (white) and (black) signs came down in the final separation of drinking fountains, toilets, and waiting rooms were separated along with restaurants and cafes in the bus stations began serving people.
