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Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
thur good marshall
they wanted blacks to have good education because blacks were suppose to be in the same school as whites. if blacks were caught at the same school as whites they would of got in really bad trouble. -
Dodgers Hire Jackie Robinson
color line
jackie robinson
was a famous baseball player and he was really famous for what he did he loved baseball thats basically what he did for most of his life and he was the first black kid to ever play baseball. -
Executive Order 9981
segregation
when black people had to march and do other things that white people did not have to do and most of the blacks had to work on a farm and help the whites. -
Congress of Racial Equality Founded
civil rights
when the whites and the blacks have freedom so that they don't have to be told what to be done by each other and they would not be put in jail basically every single day. -
Birmingham Campaign
SCLC
Southern christian leadership conference
blacks only got to go to baptist churches and that was all they didn't get to go to any other churches. when blacks did not have rights they had to do what the police said or what the white people had said for them to do. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
boycott and rosa parks
the black people had to right in the back of the bus and they had nothing that they could of done cause white people were in charge back then.
rosa park decided to sit in the front of the bus and she did not no the consequences that she was going to have by sitting in the front of the bus she had to go to jail for so many days then she had to face the judge which was not going to be good for her cause back then they did not believe blacks and what they said to the judge. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Plessy v. Ferguson two people who had owned a landmark
was a landmark constitutional law case of the US supreme court. it upheld state racial segregation law for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" -
First Lunch Counter Sit-in
jim crow laws & sit-ins
blacks and whites could not be in the same restaurant together it was against state law back in the 1960. -
Integration of Central High School
Little rock nine
was letting 9 african american kids into white kids school so they would be treated Farley and they would be treated more kind by other kids in the school. -
Freedom Rides
civil disobedience- peaceful protest against something protesters disagree with.
CORE was involve with organizing these freedom rights.
CORE ended up abandoning the free rides, but SNCC continued them.
some freedom riders were beat for their cause. -
March of Washington
NAACP
it was to try to get black people to get jobs but most of them would not because they were afraid of white people trying to kill them or put them back into jail cause thats what white people did back then. -
Advocates for Black Nationalisms
nation of islam, malcom x its a religous group also now as the black muslim.
There are different indigenous nationalist philosophies but the principles of all black nationalist ideologies are unity and self-determination that is, separation, or independence, from European society. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
disenfranchise- depriving means that someone has the right to vote
congress passed the voting right act in 1965.
african americans got the right to vote because of this act. -
Black Panther Party Founded
black power,SNCC stand up for black power
in late October 1966, Huey p. Newton and bobby Seale founded the black panther party (originally the black panther party for self defense) Newton and seale first met in 1962 when they were both students at Merritt collage. -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
affirmative action the Court ruled unconstitutional a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process, but held that affirmative action programs could be constitutional in some circumstances. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
discrimination Title VIII of this Act is commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act of 1968. -
Swan v. Charlotte- Mecklen Berg Board of Education
desegregation was a landmark United States Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools. -
Watts Riot + Kerner Commission
Kerner commission, ghettos when they lived in tents
when the germans did not get to go any were they had to stay were they were in the little tents that they had back then when it was the ghettos.
