Civil rights

By Spitfire09

  • Brown vs Board

    overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson

  • Emmett Till Murder

    African American Kid and killed in Money Mississippi. Civil rights had received some support for

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    After Rosa Parks was arrested. A groups of blacks lead by Martian Luther King Junior protested segregation by boycotting the buses of Montgomery.

  • Civil rights act of 1957

  • Little rock nine

    Governor Orval Faubus and protestors resisted efforts to integrate Little Rock High School. Eisenhower used military to let the "Little Rock Nine" into the school.

  • Greensboro Sit-Ins.

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    Albany Movement

    A mass protest by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to end all segregation, Failed but brought more national attention.

  • Freedom Riders

  • March on Washington

  • Birmingham bombings

  • Civil Rights act of 1964

    outlawed segregation + discrimination in employment

  • Dr. King's Assassination

  • Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

    essentially makes de facto segregation unconstitutional.

  • Regents of the University of California vs Bakke

    strict racial quotas are unconstitutional.