Civil Rights

  • plessy vs Ferguson
    1978 BCE

    plessy vs Ferguson

    plessy was a man that attempted to sit in an all white rail road car after refusing to move to the black rail way car he was arrested for violating a Louisianan state law
  • Montgomery bus boycott
    1978 BCE

    Montgomery bus boycott

    they protested and wouldn't ride the buses till they made the buses un segregated
  • the sit ins
    1978 BCE

    the sit ins

    1960, 4 black males sat at an all white lunch counter
  • 24th amendment
    1978 BCE

    24th amendment

    in 1964 they abolished tax to vote
  • brown v. board of education of Topeka
    1978 BCE

    brown v. board of education of Topeka

    1954 court case got rid of segregated schools
  • civil rights act of 1967
    1978 BCE

    civil rights act of 1967

    made public segregation illegal
  • voting right of act of 1965
    1978 BCE

    voting right of act of 1965

    protesters attacked to to get rid of all literacy test for the right to vote
  • little rock
    1978 BCE

    little rock

    the govern didn't want the school to be segregated at all he did not want blacks in the school at all so the president had to convince him the president finally convinced him and the schools where segregated again. but the children had to be escorted around the school by us army forces so they can be safe
  • freedom rides
    1961 BCE

    freedom rides

    in 1961 black protesters took bus rides using white restroom doors