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Plessy v. Ferguson
THis is when laws could be segergated African Americans were permitted as long as they was equal. -
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Brown v. Board of Education
After worl war two the NAACP continued to segregation in the courts. Which brought this on. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Back then they didnt allow African Americans to set in the front of the bus ,but Rosa Parks didnt care what they said. -
Souhtern Manifesto
A group of 101 Southern members of congress signed the ''Southern Manifesto". It denouced the Supreme Courts ruling as a clear abuse of judicial power. -
Segregations on buses ruled unconstitutsional
They wasnt giving blacks there equal rightd to set on the bus where they wanted to. The whites got the good front sets and blacks got the terrible back sets. -
Southern Manifesto
denounced the supreme court ruling as a clear abise in judical power -
Little Rock Nine
There was nine black students offered to go to an all white school and people didnt agree with it so they wouldnt let them in. -
The Civil Rights Act to protect blacks rights to vote
Know as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. (SCLS) It eleminated segergation from American society. -
Students stage a sit down
The Greenboro Sit-Ins of 1960 provoked all manner of emotions when they occurred and they remain an important part of civil rights history. Accepting and taking to the limit Martin Luther King’s idea of non-violence and peaceful protests, the sit-ins provoked the type of reaction the Civil Rights movement. -
Freedom Riders
In 1961, the Freedom Riders, a dedicated group of men and women, black and white, young and old across the country boarded buses, trains and planes bound for the deep South to challenge that region‘s outdated Jim Crow laws and the non-compliance with a US Supreme Court decision already three years old that prohibited segregation in all interstate public transportation facilities. -
" I have a dream" speech.
This was a very inspiring speech from Martin Luther the King. -
Twenty Fourth Amendment
It prohibits the federal government or the states from making voters pay a poll tax before they can vote in a national election. -
The civil rights act of 1964 was signed
It outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women. -
Selma March
The historic march, and King's participation in it, greatly helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the South, and the need for a Voting Rights Act, passed later that year. -
Congress passes the voting rights act of 1965
It outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.
