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Key
🟩 Achievements
🟪Protest
🟦Legislation/Supreme Court Case
🟧Violence by protestors
🟥Violence by opposition
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🟦 Sweatt v. Painter
The Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause required that Sweatt be admitted to the University of Texas law school. -
🟥 Emmett Till’s Murder
A 14-year-old boy was accused of whistling at a white woman, then he got kidnapped and beaten then was shot in the head. -
🟪 Montgomery Bus Boycott
13-month nonviolent mass protests, against racial segregation on the public transit system. -
🟩 Little Rock Nine Crisis
Nine African Americans enrolled in Little Rock Central High School, initially they were prevented from entering the racially segregated school. -
🟦 Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act sets up a civil rights commission and gives the federal Justice Department more rights to supervise voter registration. -
🟥 Greensboro Sit-In
civil rights protest that started when a group of young group of African Americans students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service -
🟥 Freedom Rides
political protests against segregation with blacks and whites who rode buses together, a group of courageous civil rights activists who challenged segregation laws. -
🟪 Albany Campaign
A movement to end all forms of racial segregation. release the ones jailed in segregation protests. -
🟦 Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or sex. This forbade discrimination anywhere and everywhere. -
🟦 Fair Housing Act
Act that made it illegal to discriminate in the buying, selling or renting of housing because of a persons race, color or religion and even sex. -
🟦 Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld busing programs that were intended to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. -
🟩 Shirley Chisolm’s Presidential Campaign
Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for President of the United States this would be the becoming of the first African American to seek a major party's nomination for President. -
🟩 Hank Aaron’s Home Run Record
Arom hit his final home run, his 755th In hitting that home run he may have kept a streak alive that may never be surpassed or duplicated. -
🟩 Barbara Jordan’s Address at the Democratic National Convention
Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, she was the first black woman to deliver the keynote address and this would of been impossible just a decade earlier. -
🟪 university of california regents vs. bakke
the Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial quotas in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of affirmative action to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances.