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Desegration Of the Armed Forces
President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing the president's commitee on equality of treatment and opportunity in the Armed services, committing the government to integrate the segregrated army. The order stated the equality of treatment and opportunity for all people without no regard on race , color , religion or national origin. -
Oliver Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka , Kansas
Brown not only overturned the precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which had declared "separate but equal facilities" constitutional,which led to the ruling of segregation being unconstitutional. -
Desegregation at little Rock, Arkansas
Students known as the Litlle Rock Nine a night before their first day in a central high school attempted to integrate the school . Daisy Bates recruited the students. A white mob would not let the students enter at school , students were not physically injured and got to enter school three days later. September 25 , Central high school was desegregated. -
Sit -Ins
Colored individuals would draw attention at local sit-ins as a cause of a non-violent protest during the civil rights Era. The colored individuals would sit at the counter until they would be served , they would return each day and each day they would have food thrown at them , get hit , pulled , etc. Students across the nation both white and black were inspired to launch similiar protest. -
Freedom Rides
In 1961 , A large amount amount of individuals waged a cross-country campaign to end the segregation of bus terminals. Buses would get burned , people would get injured and dead .It determined to them tocontinue the rides to prove that violence could not stop them. This ended the Bus riders. -
March on Washington
This historic event became the symbol of the civil rights movement, with the most great leader that was known as Marther Luther King , Jr who gave his famous speech "I have a Dream" that called civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
Voting Rights Act
Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr led the campaign to help register voters but when they tried to register to vote they were beaten and arrested. Civil rights leaders called for a march from selma to the capital Montgomery. Five months later the voting Rights Act was passed which put the entire registration process under federal control. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
1892, a 30 year old shoemaker named Homer Plesssy was arrested for sitting in a car for only white people on the East Lousiana Railroad .Plessy was requiered to sit in a "colored car". Plessy argued in court that the laws violated the 13th and 14th amendment into not being constitutional in colored Individuals , Judge ferguson ruled Plessy was guilty because the state right into regularity of the railroad commerce. -
Twenty -Sixth Amendment
Extended the right to vote to american citizens who were 18 years old or older. This amendment is eligible for every citizen over the age of eighteen could vote. -
Voting Rights Act
This law requiered states and communities with large numbers of non- english speaking residents to print the ballot in various foreign languages. It also Aids immigrants.
