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Thurgood marshall
It was Marshall who ended legal segregation in the United States. He won Supreme Court victories breaking the color line in housing, transportation and voting, all of which overturned the 'Separate-but-Equal' apartheid of American life in the first half of the century. It was Marshall who won the most important legal case of the century, Brown v. Board of Education, ending the legal separation of black and white children in public schools. The success of the Brown case sparked the 1960 -
Black waiting rooms.
a place that practiced segregation provided two waiting rooms one of which was labeled "Whites Only" It was often the case that the colored waiting room was small for the number using it, had hard or otherwise uncomfortable seating, small or dirty restrooms inconveniently placed, especially in bad weather. "Whites Only" waiting rooms were better heated, had more widely spaced and comfortable seating with enough that most of the time all white passengers could sit down and had clean and convenien -
Segragated school house.
After the case of Plessy v. Fergison announced that seperate but equal was constitutional. From 1890's until Thurgood Marshall in 1960's. -
Black Women voting.
Congress passes the Voting Rights Act in 1965, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting practices. The 1965 Act bans the literary tests and poll taxes used since Reconstruction to prevent blacks from voting. The Act comes on the heels of a major march from Selma to Montgomery in support of voting rights led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The march begins in Selma with a few thousand participants, and concludes in Montgomery with approximately 25,000 supporters. -
segragated water fountains
The same with segragated school houses, and segragated everything. Segragated water fountains were planted everywhere. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the united states. Which was former slaves recently free. It did not make states from denying any person life, liberty or property. By directly mentioning the role of the states. The 14th amendment was liked by many but hated by a lot of americans. -
Women in the Workplace
In 1950, only one in every three women entered the workforce. By the 1960s, social and economic forces made higher education more available to women, thus increasing their job opportunities. -
protest against integration
This all started when a little girl named linda brown wanted to not walk 5 miles to her school but just walk 1 to the nearest school close to her. In Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas the Supreme Court unanimously declared that those separate educational facilities are “inherently unequal” making Jim Crowe laws anywhere in the nation illegal.