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Brown V. Education of Board (Supreme court ruling)
The United States outlawed segregation in public schools. The case also declared the" separate but equal "doctrine unconstitutional . The Separate but equal doctrine gave sanctioned laws to achieve segregation by means of separate and equal public facilities and services for African Americans and whites. The Supreme court decision was important to the civil rights era because it signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest where African Americans refused to ride buses due to the segregated seating configuration. The event took 15 days starting on December 5th to the 20th of 1955. Just 4 days ago Rosa Park was arrested and fined for refusing to give up her seat to a white person. The Montgomery bus boycott was important to the civil rights movement because it began the non violent civil rights movement. -
101st first airborne division
The United States Army's 101st division led 9 black students to enter a all white High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. A few weeks earlier Governor Orval Faubus surrounded the school with national guard troops to prevent its federal court ordered racial integration. Dwight D. Eisenhower stepped in and sent 1,000 army paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce the court order. This was before Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas national guard. -
Greensboro Sit in
Greensboro, North Carolina, four African American college students sparked a nationwide civil rights movement by refusing to leave a whites only lunch counter at a retail store,. this became known as the Greensboro sit in. The African Americans sat there until the store was closed, and by the end of the week 200 people protested at the store. this is important to the Civil rights movement because it was nonviolent and was as success for the civil rights movement. -
March on Washington
More than a million people participated in the March of Washington for jobs and freedom, gathering near the Lincoln memorial. The event focused on discrimination, civil right abuses against African Americans, Latinos and disenfranchised groups. This march pressured the administration of JFK to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress. -
Civil rights Act passed
On July 2nd president London B Johnson signed a law that prohibited discrimination for integration of schools and other public facilities and made employment discrimination illegal. The bill was important to the civil rights movement because the Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. -
Selma to Montgomery marches
On Sunday March 7, 1965, about six hundred people began a fifty-four mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol in Montgomery. They were demonstrating for African American voting rights and to commemorate the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot three weeks earlier by a state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration. This was important to the civil rights movement because it exercised their constitutional rights to vote even in the segregated system. -
Voting rights act of 1965
The Voting Acts of 1965 was passed and Londyn Johnson outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This was important to the Civil Rights movement because it allowed African Americans to vote. -
Assassination of MLK jr
Martian Luther Kind Jr was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. This made a impact on the Civil rights because it led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968,
President Londyn B. Johnson signed the civil rights Act of 1968, which was a follow-up to the c Civil rights Act of 1964. The Act banned discrimination in housing accommodation because of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, or familial status.