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The Civil Rights Movement in the US

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  • Integration of armed forces

    Integration of armed forces. This was one of the key happenings that paved way for the future Civil Rights movement.

  • Integration of schools

    The US Supreme Court agreed on that all schools in USA should be integrated since separate schools had been unequal. This was the second big breakthrough that paved way for the Civil Rights Movement.

  • The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

    This is the date when you usually say that the Civil Rights movement started by an action of black Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat in a municipal bus for a white man and got arrested. An over a one year organized boycott of city buses took its beginning.

  • The ending of segregation on buses

    Segregation on buses in the South stopped by a decision of the US Supreme Court.

  • Get black people in the South to vote!

    In the early 1960s there was a big effort made to get black people to register to vote in the South, so the federal government set up registration centres that were protected by federal marshals since there were local and state authorities that were against that idea.

  • Affirmative Action Programs

    1961 President John Kennedy ordered so called affirmative action programs within the federal government and for many companies that receive federal contracts to make it easier for women and people who are culturally disadvantaged to obtain positions that they are qualified for.

  • Peaceful demonstration in Washington DC

    Some quarter million both black and white demonstrators met up in Washington in a protest against laws discriminating blacks. People held speeches and the Civil Rights Movement gained big attention.

  • 1964, 1965, 1968, Civil Rights Acts

    1964, 1965, 1968 – These were the years that the Civil Rights Acts that made discrimination on the basis of a race, sex and religion illegal occurred.

  • Riot in Los Angeles

    1965 Dramatic riot in Los Angeles in protest of police brutality majorly by white cops, and from frustration of the slow progress of the promises of the civil rights movement coming true.

  • Riot in Detroit

    (Same description as the one about the riot in Los Angeles)

  • No racial preferances

    The affirmative action had been questioned before and there were cases taken to court about so called reversed discrimination, and for example in 1996 in California, voters decided to forbid racial preferences in admission to for example universities.