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A group set on taking down the rights of the African Americans in the south and ending the Progressive Era in the south.
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This was the start of the civil rights movement. The Fourteenth amendment is passed, protecting African Americans under the law.
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Granted the right for African Americans to vote.
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This act was passed in response to many white business owners who refused to make their services available to African Americans.This also acted on the verbal discrimination taking place.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by a multi-racial group of activists in New York, it was done in light of the political and economical struggle of African Americans.
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Truman ordered that it was the right of every president that everyone had a chance to be in the Military. Regardless of race and so on.
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Brown Vs. Board of Educationof Topeka, Kansas. It's determined that segragation at schools are unconstitutional.
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One man is brutally attacked and killed for supposedly whistling at two women. Two boys accused of attacking him are faced with an all-white court. This starts up issues on it.
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An African American woman refused to give up her seat on the bus.
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Is made president and makes SCLC which is key to giving rights to all and erasing the segregation.
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Nine African American students were threatened by the KKK (In the heat of the KKK Movement) to not go into school. The school was surrounded by police and 1,000 people onlooking as the students were escorted in.
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Four boys sat at a segregated table. Although refused service, they were allowed to sit there. Six months later, they were offered service and carved the road between blacks and whites.
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James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy sent 5,000 federal troops to contain the violence and riots surrounding the incident.
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More than 250,000 people gathered to hear King's speech.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed acts of racism, sexism, and judging of religious or ethnic placements.
