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Plessy v.s Ferguson
Plessy vs Ferguson was a landmark constitutional law case of the US supreme court. Upheld state racial segregation laws for public stores and public places under the doctrine of "separate but equal". In 1890, Louisiana State Legislature passed the Separate Car Act, a law that required "equal, but separate" train car for Black and White people. 'Jim Crow Laws' had replaced the famous Black Codes, the codes was the way the people of color would communicate. -
Greensboro Four
On February 4th 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, four freshman students walked downtown and sat at the whites only counter at Woolsworth then refused to leave when they were denied service and stayed till the store closed. Also During the next 10 days, students across the state participated in similar sit–ins. Because of this Woolworth's was desegregated by the end of July 1960. All of this brought The passage of the 1960 Civil Rights Bill to take place. -
Murder of Medgar Evers
Medgar (African American) was assassinated outside of his house in the driveway by Byron De La Beckwith (white man). Medgar was a fiels worker for the NAACP. He also was part of finding evidence for the Emmett Till murder case. 30 years later the case was reopened and a multi raced jury found Byron guilty and sentenced him to life in prison. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
This was an African American church. It was used as a civil rights leader meeting place as well. The Birmingham Church Bombing was an act of White supremacist terrorism. A few people were injured and 4 young girls were killed. Birminghan, Alabama was one of America’s most racially discriminatory and segregated cities. ( http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/birmingham-church-bombing ) -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act was a law signed in by Lyndon Johnson. This Act banned the use of literacy tests. Mainly The Voting Rights act helped African Americans vote. ( http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act ) -
Allan Bakke Case
The Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial "quotas" for admissions was very unconstitutional but they university used the affirmative act to accept more people of color. Allan Bakke was suing the university after find out people of color was with lower qulifications or disadvantages was accepted into medical school. He was a white man who did not get accept into college because he was colored.
