Civil Rights

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    The Supreme Court rules in favor of the "Separate but Equal" law. The deemed that it wasn't interfering with the Fourteenth Amendment
  • Brown v Board of Education of Topeka

    The Father of Linda Brown goes to court claiming that Jim Crow laws are denying his daughter her rights. Segregation was struck down in schools
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Boycott on segregated buses
  • Little Rock School Intergration

    Arkansas becomes the first state to admit blacks without a court order
  • Sit-Ins

    North Carolina Agri & Tech College staged a sit-in at a whites only lunch counter
  • Freedom Riders

    People like James Peck who took a trip across the south in order to show the Kennedy administration how bad it was
  • March on Birmingam

    Thousand plus demonstrators march on Birmingham and the local police force was dispatched to stop them though it was peaceful
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    This Act prohibited discrimination of race,gender,religion, national origin
  • The voting Act of 1965

    An Act put up to allow Blacks to vote
  • March From Selma to Montgomery for voting rights

    25,000 demonstaitors march on Montgomery for equal rights