-
-
the NAACP combines 5 cases from Kansas, Virginia, Delaware, South Carolina, and the district of Columbia, to the Supreme Court. the court declared 9-0 that racial segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment, effectively overturning the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision mandating "separate but equal." the brown ruling directly affected legally segregated schools in twenty-one states -
Jim Crow law, that black people had to ride in the back of the bus. rosa parks was asked to sober, she said no. she was arrested and fine $10. the bus boycott started the next day and lasted 381 days. a federal; court ordered the end of the boycott by making the Jim Crow law unconstitutional -
The SCLC wan an organization linked to the black churches. 60 black ministers were pivotal in organizing civil right activism. Martin Luther king Jr was elected president. They focused its non violent strategy on citizenship, schools and efforts to desegregate individual cites. It played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery in 1965.