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Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws were established during the Plessey vs. Ferguson case in the Supreme Court. These sergregrative laws were meant not only to keep the black man down, but to keep the Democratic political party in power since whites figured that the blacks would vote the opposite political party (Republicans) since the Democrats will keep only whites in power. -
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Civil Rights Era
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NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colord People)
NAACP was founded in order to ensure equality for everyone among the colored population (like the NOW Organization, but for all/any races.) -
Congress outlaws lynching of African Americans
(Not date specific) The American government makes it so white Americans are legally unable to lynch African Americans. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The Brown vs. Board of Education case started on this day; it was ignited due to the fact that the children of Oliver Brown and many other African American parents had to walk miles to get to the bus stop that takes them to "black" schools and not a "white" school that is far less than a mile away from home. At first, Oliver Brown and many other parents tried to take this to court, but they lost; they tried again, but this time, they made it to the Supreme Court, which is when the case started. -
Little Rock Integration
(No specific day was available, only the year of the event) The entrance of the Little Rock Nine (Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, Minniejean Brown, Gloria Ray, Thelma Mothershed and, Melba Pattillo) into an originally "white" high school became the iconic event for "Integration" in history. -
Emmett "Bobo" Till Case
This case was about a young African American who got pistol whipped and killed because he reportedly flirted with a white woman. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This is the day that Rosa Parks sparked up the bus boycott (which was the works of Martin Luther King Jr.). which she got arrested for; this was definitely one of the top key moments for the Civil Rights Movement of America) . -
The March on Washington
The March on Washington is the protest march before which Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Junior said his "I have a Dream" speech. -
Voting Rights Act
Although the 15th Amendment was passed on February 3 in 1870, not many African Americans were able to vote, up until the Voting Rights Act occurred in 1965. -
NOW (National Organization for Women)
(Date unspecific) The NOW Organization forms to try and better the rights for women in order to enforce equality between genders in the workplace. (This symbolizes that not only did people advocate for the rights of the black man, they advocated for the rights of [generally white] women too.) -
Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed as he was standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee by a young white man named James Earl Ray.
