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  it upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities.
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  The 19th amendment granted women's right to vote. Know as women's suffrage.
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  The court declared state laws establishing separate public school for black and white students
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  Emmett Till was a 14 year old african american who was lynched and killed in 1955 after a white women said she was offended by him.
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  The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transportation.
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  The Act of 1957 is a federal voting bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil rights act of 1875
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  The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate states.
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  The fair labor standards act aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on gender.
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  The March on Washington was for jobs and freedom, was held in washington D.C.
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  It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the the basis of race, color, and religion.