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BrownVs.Board of Education
The Brown case was based on the important argument that black children were getting an unequal education. The teachers were getting paid diffrently. The Schools building, the classrooms, and textbooks wre inferior. -
Hamilton holmes & Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton E. Holmes (8 July 1941 – 26 October 1995) was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Additionally, Holmes was the first African-American student to attend the Emory University School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. in 1967, later becoming a professor of orthopedics and associate dean at the school. Holmes was a member of Phi Beta Kappa fraternity and Phi Kappa Phi Honors -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is when the blacks did the sit in at Shaw University. The sncc was an organization of white and Black collage students was very important in the efforts to desegregate public spases. -
ALBANY MOVEMENT
In 1961 a movement began to desegragate Albany in Dougherty County, the first large scale effort since Montgomery. In this rural area of the state , most blacks depended on whites for tieir livelhood, making protest at a risky activity -
Maynard Jackson
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States[1] that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.[2] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public ("public accommodations"). CREDIT TO WIKIPEDIA -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States[1] that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women.[2] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public ("public accommodations"). CREDIT TO WIKIPEDIA -
March on Washington CREDIT TO CORE ONLINE>ORG
The 1963 March on Washington attracted an estimated 250,000 people for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans. Participants walked down Constitution and Independence avenues, then — 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed — gathered before the Lincoln Monument for speeches, songs, and prayer. Televised live to an audience of millions, the march provided dramatic moments, most memorably the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.'s "
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