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The Montgomery bus boycott was a civil rights protest where African Americans refused to ride city buses in Alabama. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system,
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President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the little rock nine, a group of nine African Americans who enrolled in an all-white school. Their attendance was a test to the Brown v. Board of Education, a ruling in supreme court that declared segregation in schools unconstitutional.
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In 1957, President Eisenhower sent Congress a proposal for civil rights legislation. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. It also established a federal Civil Rights Commission with the authority to investigate discriminatory conditions and recommend corrective measures.
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Freedom rides were a series of political protests against segregation by blacks and whites who rode buses together through the South. They were launched by student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality.
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The March on Washington consisted of around 250,000 people who gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. They were demanding equal rights for all citizens under the law. It was also the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech.
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Freedom Summer also known as the Mississippi summer project was a voter registration aimed to increase the number of African American voters in Mississippi. The movement was organized by civil rights organizations like the Congress on Racial Equality, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and run by the local Council of Federated Organizations.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools.
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The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, or sex. The Fair Housing Act stands as the final great legislative achievement of the civil rights era.
