civil rights

By kyiana
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    supreme court banned segregation in public school
  • Emmett Till Murder

    Emmett Till Murder

    a boy who was murdered my 2 white men for speaking to one of the men's wife
  • Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

    an African American lady who refused to give up her seat to a white person on the bus
  • The Little Rock Nine and Integration

    The Little Rock Nine and Integration

    nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School
  • Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins

    a pivotal civil rights protest that began on February 1, 1960, when four Black college freshmen sat at the "whites-only" lunch counter and were refused service
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States
  • MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

    MLK’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

    letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while imprisoned for participating in nonviolent protests against racial segregation
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    a massive peaceful protest that brought over 250,000 people to Washington, D.C., to demand civil and economic rights for African Americans
  • Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing

    Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing

    The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a racially motivated terrorist attack on September 15, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young girls
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    It abolished and forbids the federal and state governments from imposing taxes on voters during federal elections.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in areas such as employment, public accommodations, and education
  • Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March

    refers to the violent attack on civil rights marchers
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    a landmark federal law that outlawed discriminatory voting practices
  • Loving v. Virginia

    Loving v. Virginia

    Supreme Court case that ruled Virginia's laws against interracial marriage were unconstitutional