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The plessy v Ferguson act upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races -
The brown v board case was a consolidation of five cases that came before the Supreme Court in 1952. Thurgood Marshall argued the case for the NAACP. Marshall argued that segregated schools were inherently unequal and that they made Black children feel inferior. -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest that took place from December 1955 to December 1956. It was a response to racial segregation on the city bus system in Montgomery Alabama. -
The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their actions were a key part of the fight for civil rights in the United States -
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in 1960 that took place at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina. The protests were a major victory for the Civil Rights movement -
The Freedom Riders were a group of civil rights activists who rode buses across the segregated South in 1961. Their goal was to end racial segregation in public transportation. -
The Birmingham campaign was a series of protests in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 that aimed to end racial segregation. The campaign was part of the Civil Rights Movement. -
The march on Washington was the largest march of its time. The march was used to advocate freedom for black Americans and equality. -
Freedom Summer was a campaign launched by civil rights activists in June 1964 to register as many African American voters as possible in the state of Mississippi -
The civil right act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in public places and provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities and made employment discrimination illegal -
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It applies to hiring, firing, pay, job train-ing, and other employment decisions. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other laws prohibit discrimination in education based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, and age. These laws apply to all schools that receive federal funds including public and private schools. -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were a series of protests in 1965 that took place in Alabama to demand voting rights for African Americans -
The voting rights act outlawed many discriminatory voting practices adopted in southern states after the Civil War including literacy tests. -
Loving v. Virginia was a 1967 Supreme Court case that ruled against laws banning interracial marriage -
the Fair Housing Act was a federal law that prohibited discrimination in housing. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1968 -
The Poor People's campaign was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States -
The University of California regent v bakke was a Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial quotas in its admissions process was unconstitutional