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This established the constitutionally of racial segregation. It prevented constitutional challenges. This is where "Sepreate but Equal" came from.
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Jackie Robinson helped more people join the MLB. He was a really good baseball player and people now wear his signature number on his anniversery
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This let anyone join the armed forces. So anyone regardless of race, color, sex or ethnecity is allowed to join. It was signed by President S. Truman.
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This court case challenged the "seperate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation and was an influential landmark of Plessy v. Ferguson
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This court case made got rid of segregation in schools allowing both african american kids and white kids go to school together. Saying that if they are segretated that the african americans are the inferior race.
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Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white person. She came from a family of seamsreses but became well known and was an activest and feminist in the civil rights movement.
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The Little Rock nine were a group of students going to an all white school. The president sent federal troops to walk with them at all time to protect them from the other students.
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It was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since 1875
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Freedom Rideres are activists that rode on interstate buses. They traveled to segregated southern states.
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The Greensboro Four was a group of four people that would go and sit in the segregated areas of resturants and have lunch there.
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This amendment did not allow the voting of poll tax from both the states and congress.
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People came and watched and protested the enrollment of James Meredith a black air force vet that was trying to enroll in an all white school.
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JFK sent federal troops to the University of Alabama to enforce desegregation. Govener Wallace refused and stood at the entrance not letting the two African American students enroll. By the end of the day both students were enrolled.
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It was a march held in Washington D.C. to advocate for economic and civil rights of african americans. Martin Luther King Jr. was the one who held this march.
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JFK was the youngest president and was assasinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot in the head while in a car with his wife. He is known as one of the best presidents.
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This was a labor law that outlawed dicrimination based on color, sex, religion, or race. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.
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On February 21st 1965 in Audubon Ballroom Malcolm X was assasinated by rivial black muslims. He was a civil rights activist.
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It was three marches on a 54 mile highway. To protest voting rights.
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The federal legislation prohibited racial discrimination in voting.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist that was killed in Menphis Tennesee
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This did not let people be excluded from certain activities, subjected to discrimination, or denied benefits because of their sex
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Sanddra O'Conner was the firs woman justice of the supreme court
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Barack Obama's Inauguration was a big deal because he was the first African American president in the united states.
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They allowed women into aviation positions by secretary of defense Les Aspen.
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Hillary Clinton was the first women to be nominated by a major political party. So when she won the Democratic Party Nomination she was the first woman to win the popular vote.
