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US supreme court case that declared "separate but equal" is constitutional and separate public facilities for African-american's & whites are legal.
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Sylvia Mendez was 9 when her dad was a part of a lawsuit that forced Orange County, California to allow Mexican kids to attend school with white kids.
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supreme court case that declared segregation of schools was unconstitutional
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9 year old Emmett was beaten, shot and umped into a river by a white man. They went to court & got away with it because it was an all-white jury.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat up for a white man in Alabama, Montgomery. Which sparks the beginning of a boycott.
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This boycott was sparked by Rosa parks, when she refused to give up her seat for an American man. This protest lasted 13 months.
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Even if segregation was unconstitutional, many schools still were. 9 students were blocked from entering a school in Arkansas.
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The Greensboro sit-in was a non-violence protest in 1960 which caused a policy of racial segregation in the South.
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The "Freedom Riders" rode an interstate bus to the segregated South in order to protest many Civil Right violations. On they way there they were all arrested for violating the Jim Crow Law.
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On August 28th, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech, talking about his opinions on slavery.
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The 24th amendment prohibiting poll tax in elections
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This act outlawed forms of discrimination for example, racial, ethnic, nation and religion.
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"Bloody Sunday" was march of about 600 people. They marched from Selma, Alabama to the capital of Montgomery.
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President Johnson signs the voting act of 1965, this act suspends devices such as literacy test. The literacy test was done to prevent from African Americans from voting
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This order was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, which outlawed discrimination in hiring and employment. For example race, sex, color, religion or national origin.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered at age 39 outside his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray was convicted of the crime.
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This act was signed off by President Johnson, this prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing.
