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Rights to vote
The beginning in the 1890s, in the Sourthern states there was poll taxes, literacy tests, and excluded black voters.
By 1904 the state political parties stated all African Americans can vote. -
segregation in workplaces
Majority of the jobs were closed to African Americans because of their race, but when they were hired they were being paid low.
In today's world, Anybody can work wherever they want. -
Segregation and Education
Quote- ¨ It shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend a white school, or any white child to attend a colored school.¨
- Jim Crow In 1929 at the University of Oklahoma, black schools had fewer books, second-handed furniture, and inferior building, and teachers were more poorly paid.
By 1954 the Supreme Court took over the case and thought that schools shouldn´t be separated anymore -
14th Amendment
Marshal argued in 1953 that separated school systems for blacks and white were inherently unequal.
Made an equal protection clause of the 14th amendment to the U.S. constitution.s -
Emmett Till
In 1955 a 14-year-old boy name Emmett Till went to visit his uncle in Mississippi. He was caught flirting with a white woman but he would later be found dead near a river.
Young Tills murder will lead to the civil rights movement and inspired African Americans. As Rosa parks, she took action to oppose racial discrimination and injustice. -
Medgar Evers
In Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers organized a campaign in the spring of 1963 to show the racism in the state. After being threatened multiple times he was gun down by a ku klux klan member.
In 2 trials his killer was found not guilty but in 1994 Evers murder was finally convicted and sentenced to life in prison. -
Social Segregation
In southern states, law seregrated almost everything. For example, blacks and whites traveled in separated railroads cars, separated hotels, and drank from separated fountains.
By 1964 the civil right act started and in today's world everything isn´t separated as it used to be. -
Segregations in marriages
Many states passed the laws by banning interracial marriages.
In 1967 the supreme court dropped the law and in today's world anybody can marry whoever. -
Martin Luther King
Quote- ¨ I have a dream¨
Martin Luther King his dream was to have African Americans to be equal and want them to be friends with each other. Martin gave his voice to the civil rights movement.
In today world blacks and whites aren´t as separated like it used to be. -
Non-Violent protesting strategies
When people were protesting some protesters went to restaurants and stayed in and refuse to leave. The protesters were suffering because they were being abuse from the crowd.
In today's world anybody can go wherever they want.