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Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
The U.S Supreme Court stated, in the Brown v. Board of Education, that segregation by race should be considered wrong
Exact Qoute
"segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group"
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Rosa Park, Montgomery Bus Boycott
An African American women named Rose Park refused to give up her seat for a white man after being ordered by the bus driver. She was arrested by the police and fined for breaking the segregation law. Her event leads to the boycott of public black buses in Montogomery which lasted 381 days. The U.S court finally orders Montgomery to have the bus system integrate.Marther Luther King was the leaders of the buses boycotts. He is a young pastor who becomes to be a national leader for civil rights -
Little Rock Nine (Little Rock Central High School desegregated)
Due to the Brown v. Board Education, there were nine black students who were registered nine black people(Melba Patillo Beals, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls Lanier, Terrance Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Minnijean Brown Trickey, and Thelma Mothershed Wair) to attend a white only school. These black students were greeted by a raging crowd of people who were against the integration. These nine students gave up trying to attend because they weren't appreciated -
Freedom Rider
A gathering of black and white activist decided to do a campaign called the Freedom Rider, which consisted of a series of bus trips through the south of America. During the group's journey, they suffered a huge amount violence from white people. The leaders of the KKK devised a plan to attack the Freedom Riders. On the May the 14th slashed the bus tyres and firebombed the bus. The mob also beating the riders, they were also about to lynch them but they fled after they a patrolman arrived. -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Ever was a civil right activist for social justice and voting right for the University of Missipi.He was a World War 2 veteran who was a college graduate. He becomes the field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), this is where he was active at trying to allow African American to be able to go to University of Missipi.
His demise came from a white segregationalist in the White Citizen Council when he was investigating crimes against blacks -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Civil Rights Act was a follow-up to the Civil Right of 1964(a legislation in U.S which prohibited racial discrimination in voting ). The Civil Rights Act prohibited the refusal to sell or rent because of their race, the discrimination against a person terms and condition of selling and renting a place, publicising the sale or rent mentioning the preference of intolerance based on their colour and religion, the threatening and interference exercising rights on a base based on discrimination. -
Black Power
Stokely Carmicheal is a member of the Freedom Rider and also made a famous speech called Black Power, which was about black people to unite and to form a community. He leads an organisation which was to reject America
There are other events which people have referred to black power. One famous example is the Tommie Smith and John Carlos who raised their black gloved fist on the podium. This was planned by the medalist and Peter Norman also supported the event by giving them ideas. Say it loud
