Civil Rights

  • Plessy vs. Furgouson

    Plessy vs. Furgouson
    From April 13, 1896 - April 18, 1896
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    Civil Rights Movement

    Everything that is happening concerning racial equality, and racial justice.
  • Brown v. Board

    Brown v. Board
    Brown v. Board was a court case to end the segregation in schools. The court ordered desegregation the next year “with all deliberate speed.”
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    Space Race

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    Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks bus Protesting

    Rosa Parks bus Protesting
    Rosa Parks disobeyed the bus driver when he told her to give up her seat in the “white” section of the bus
  • Little Rock Nine

    Nine black girls joined a segregated school.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws
    Was going on from 1880s-1960s. Affected voting rights of the Black Americans. Many southern states found loopholes to contradict this, so many went to jail.
  • Greensboro Sit-in

    Greensboro Sit-in
    Four Black Americans sat at a white only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • Alabama State Sit-In

    Staged sit in at a segregated lunch counter
  • John F. Kennedy Becomes President

    John F. Kennedy Becomes President
  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    600 protests got attacked.
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    Civil Rights activists who protested by riding desegregated buses into the segregated south and used the opposite race’s facilities.
  • Housing Act of 1961

  • Children’s Crusade

    Children’s Crusade
    March to protest but children were the main group of marchers to have a stronger impact. The government used fire hoses and dogs to stop the protest.
  • March On Washington

    March On Washington
    Marching to protest for jobs, voting rights, and desegregation. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the famous “I Have. A Dream Speech” that inspired millions of people.
  • Kennedy Assassination

    Kennedy Assassination
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Becomes President

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    Lyndon B. Johnson passed this act so that there was racial equality for voting.
  • Detroit Riot

    Detroit Riot
    Went from July 23, 1967-July 27, 1967