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Dodgers hire Jackie Robinson
Color Line, was the way they separated whites and nonwhites.
Jackie Robinson was the first black baseball player to play in the whites league.
He was arrested in Texas for not giving up his seat on the bus. -
Executive Order 9981
Segregation, Separating something by its characteristics.
President Truman signing the Executive Order 9981.
All troops no matter what race will serve together in the armed forces. -
Congress of Racial Equality Founded (CORE)
Civil Rights, goal to protect peoples freedom form the government.
A group of students founded
Counseled migrants, and black social workers
First action sit-in at segregated coffee shop -
Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
Thurgood Marshall, argued for Brown in the case. NAACP's lawyer.
Linda Brown wanted to go to a white school that was closer to her home, case was argued in front of the Warren Court
Public Schools became de-segregated. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Boycott and Rosa Parks, Boycott is a nonviolent way of protesting, and Rosa Parks was the first person to start the bus boycott.
When she refused she was arrested. -
First Lunch Counter Sit-In
Jim Crow Laws & Sit-In, They sat in lunch counters and protested the Jim Crow Laws.
Four college black students sat in an all whites lunch counter and they refused to serve them.
This was only of the first, it sparked many others across the south to do lunch sit in protests. -
Freedom Rides
Civil Disobedience & SNCC,the civil disobedience counseled students to deliberately break laws they considered unjust, and the SNCC stood for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
They were colored people who road a bus to the south and who test if the southern states were following the rules.
When they reached the south they found that the south did not follow the rules, this was shown by them setting the bus on fire then beating the colored when they came out. -
Integration of Central High
Little Rock Nine, were the first legal African American students allowed into a white school.
It was Nine Color students who were going to join Central High School.
They didn't till a couples day later because or an angry mob of white people. -
Birmingham campaign
SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference pledged that they would use nonviolence to protest.
King and other leaders in the SCLC got together and decided to use a peaceful protest.
A lot of supports agreed to this peaceful protest. -
March on Washington
NAACP, is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The NAACP wanted to use Rosa Parks and build a case around her arrest.
The NAACP looked for many cases for the right one and Rosa Parks case was the right one. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Plessy v. Ferguson, was a case in supreme court which was about state racial segregation laws for the public.
President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed to make the Civil Rights Act of 1954 which banned discrimination of races, sex, and religion.
This was one of the most important laws passed since reconstruction. -
Advocates for Black Nationalism
Nation of islam, Malcolm X, Nation of islam is a religious group, also known as Black Muslims, Malcolm X wanted complete separation form the white society.
Malcolm X joined the Nation of islam.
Black Muslims worked to become independent from the whites. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Disenfranchise, is depriving someone the right to vote.
Some African Americas were now able to vote.
This act became successful, and grew support around the country. -
Watts Riot
Kerner Commission and ghettos, Ghettos are run down or poverty areas where people live.
Watts riot lasted 6 days.
After these riots LBJ made the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to examine what had caused the riots. -
Black Panther Party Founded
Black Power, part of the movement to support of rights and political power for black people.
Bobby Seal and Huey Newton, founded the Black Panther Party.
The name is a symbol saying they won't back down. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Discrimination, the unjust treatment of people based on race.
Law created to ban discrimination when buying or selling sales. It gave the government the authority to file law suits agains people who broke this law. -
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education
Desegregation, ending of racial segregation.
The case was whether de facto segregation caused by housing patterns constitutional.
This reached the Supreme Court. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Affirmative action, Its a policy favoring those who suffer from discrimination.
Allan Bakke sued the school for revers discrimination.
It reached the supreme court.
