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KEY
🏆 Achievement
😠Protest
⚖️ Legislation/Supreme Court Case
🔥Violence by Protesters
🦹Violence by Opposition
☮️No Violence -
Sweatt v. Painter ⚖️🏆
The case involved an African American, Heman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas, whose president was Theophilus Painter, on the grounds that the Texas State Constitution prohibited integrated education. In the end, both Sweatt and Painter took it into court, in which the court unanimously settled that Sweatt should be admitted into the University. -
Emmet Tills Murder🦹
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, was murdered on August 28, 1955, in a racist attack that shocked the nation and provided a start for the emerging civil rights movement. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott😠
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. -
Little Rock Nine Crisis😠🏆
Little rock nine was a group of African Americans who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High school in 1957. Their enrollment eventually led to a backlash from the state of Arkansas. Due to this, the national guard helped guard the group in and out of the school. Eventually, this led to a vote in Little Rock in which a total of 19,470 to 7,561 were against integration. -
Cooper v. Aaron⚖️
States must obey the decisions of the Supreme Court and cannot refuse to follow them. -
Greensboro Sit-In😠🏆
The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South. Eventually, this protest led to the removal of segregated seats. -
Freedom Rides😠🏆
During the spring of 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides, a civil rights movement to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals. This bolstered the credibility of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964⚖️🏆
This prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
James Meredith's March Against Fear😠
Civil Rights Activist James Meredith, the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi, began a solitary walk on June 6, 1966, intending to walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi to call attention to racism and continued voter discrimination in the South. -
Fair Housing Act⚖️🏆
The act protects people from discrimination when they are renting or buying a home, getting a mortgage, seeking housing assistance, or engaging in other housing-related activities. -
Swann vs Mecklenberg Schools⚖️🏆
The Fourteenth Amendment permits the systematic use of buses to convey children of different races across district lines to further the goal of integrating public schools. -
Hank Aarons Home Run Record🏆
On April 8, 1974, Atlanta Braves star Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing to break the revered record held by Babe Ruth. -
Equality Act🏆⚖️
Prohibits, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, discrimination on account of sex, marital status or sexual orientation in places of public accommodation, and under color of State law. -
Barbara Jordan’s Address at the Democratic National Convention🏆😠
Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. As Americans sensed a fracturing of American life in the 1970s, Jordan called for Americans to commit themselves to a “national community” and the “common good.” -
University of California Regents vs. Bakke Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association⚖️🏆
a 1978 Supreme Court case that held that a university's admissions criteria that used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Eventually, the Supreme Court ruled that Bakke should be admitted into the school.