Political Events

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    Supreme Court rules "equal but separate" for African Americans and whites did not violate the 13th or the 14th amendment
  • NAACP

    NAACP challenged school segregation
  • Brown v Board of Education

    US Supreme Court overruled Plessy v Ferguson and declares that segregation in schools violated the 14th amendment
  • Civil Rights Act 1964

    Jim Crow laws didn't allow minorities to exercise their rights. For example the right to vote, access to education, educational/economical segregation, use of public transportation and/or going into public buildings. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender or national origin required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote.