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The 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment and made the transport, consumption and sale of liquor allowed.
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Emmett Till was a 14 year old girl who lived in Mississippi and she was lynched. The reason she was lynched because a white women said she offended her family at a grocery store.
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The Brown v Board of Education was a supreme court case that declared there not be seperate schools for white/black people.
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the Brown v Brown of Education II case was another supreme court case. This case made it so that people of all color would be friends in school.
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Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white male on the bus. This is what started the Montgomery bus boycott.
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The Montgomery bus boycott was protesting segergation that would happen on buses. The protests were non-violent
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The SCLC or Southern Christan Leadership Conference is a american civil rights organisation that followed Martian Luthur Kid Jr. They had a very large play in the American civil rights movement.
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President Eisenhower sent in Federal Troops to a Central high school to stop black people from enrolling.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a group of students who do sit ins.
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the Greensboro sit ins were non-violent protests against woolworth working conditions.
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They sent federal agents to come break up peaceful protests.
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Freedom Riders were people who wanted things to change. They were civil rights activist who road busses of the road to make a case in the supreme court.
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This was another act of white supremacy where they took the baptists who was one of MLKs main men
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This was the generation of bad movement. There were black leaders and racists.
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the bailey v Petterson supreme court case made it people of all color had the same constitutial rights as the average white male.
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MLK was sent to jail because he was protesting to help black rights
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The Equal Pay Act is an act that was signed on june 10th. This act made it so that people couldn't get paid less depending on their religion, age, sex, color or any other discriminations.
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the assassination of Medgar Evers. Medger evans was murdered in Jackson Mississippi and he was a civil rights leader. He was later burried in full mitiary honors.
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He sent troops to escort colored students into a white school.
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There was a march in Washinton for freedom and to fix unemployment rates. The march was held in Washington D.C and 200,000-300,000 people joined in. This is when MLK had his iconic "I have a dream" speech.
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The bombing of the church was a result im white people supremacists not liking black people. They bombed the church
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John F. Kennedy was the president of the United States when he was shot. He was shot riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza
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Freedom Summer was a volunteer system to register alot of African Americans
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This act ended segregation on race, color, religion and sex. This is one major achivements in the civil rights movment.
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The Goodman ware civil right workers in Mississippi. There were abducted and murdered in Mississippi. They were working on making it legal for black people to vote at this time.
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The Montgomery marches where protesters marched 54-mile highway.
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Malcolm X was shot before giving a speech about his new organization of Afro-Americans Unity. He was shot in New York.
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The voting rights act was an act that made it legal for all color of people to vote. This made it so african americans could vote.
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The MLK house bombing was a segregation for the bus boycott.
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The Black Panthers were a party that wanted change. The black panthers were armed civials that would watch the oakland police
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Loving v Virginia was a landmark in the civil rights movement that makes interracial marriage legal.
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The detriot riot was one of the bloodist riots every. Protests were beaten and sprayed when they were being too violent.
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The Minneapolis Riots was from racial tension that erupted among plymouth ave. There were assults and all other kinds of violent things going on.
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Robert F. Kennedy was a president candidate. He was shot around midnight in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles California. He Was running in the 1968 election
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Martin Luther King Jr was a civil rights leader that was shot in a motel in Tennessee. He was rushed to the hospital but later declared dead.
