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The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The NAACP and Thurgood Marshall took up their case, along with similar ones in South Carolina, Virginia, and Deleware, as Brown V Board of Education. This occurred in Topeka, Kansas. -
Martin Luther King Jr was the first president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. This began a chain reaction of similar boycotts throughout the south. I was a 13 month mass protest that ended with the US Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. This was located in Montgomery Alabama. This all happened after seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. -
The march was organized by the ¨Big Six¨ leaders of the civil rights movement. Those people were Philip Randolph, Whitney M, Young Jr, Martin Luther King Jr, James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, and John Lewis. Bayard Rustin was chief organizer of the march, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. The speech took place in front of the lincoln memorial by MLK. -
The civil rights act is historic civil rights law that is meant to ensure that the right to vote is not denied on account of race or colour. Johnson signed the CIvil RIghts Act of 1964 into law. Those gathered behind President Johnson at the bill signing included civil rights leader MLK and future District of Columbia Delegate Walter Fauntroy. This was located in many southern states. -
MLK was leaning over the balcony railing in front of room 306 and was speaking with Rev Jesse Jackson when the shot rang out. King was struck in the face at 6:01 p.m by a single 30-06 bullet fired from a Remington Model 760 rifle. James Earl Ray was an American criminal that assassinated MLK at the Lorraine motel in Memphis Tennessee. HIs assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans. As we;ll as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for a fair house bill