Civil Rights

  • Roosevelt Takes Office

  • Washington March

    Protest was called off after President Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to ban discrimination by defense industries or government.
  • Brown v.s. Board

    Court ordered integration of public schools.
  • Presidential Election

    Kennedy won with 68% of the black vote!
  • Civil Rights Act

    Lyndon B. Johnson, signed it into law
  • "We Shall Overcome"

    He announced the voting rights legislation he would be introducing.
  • Voting Rights Act

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act into law.
  • The National Black Political Convention

    The news media fixed on the most controversial debates about the recognition of a Palestinian homeland and the use of busing to integrate schools. It was important because of its unity.
  • Federal Court Order to Integrate Boston Schools

    The most controversial aspect of his plan was two-way busing, sending black students into majority-white schools and white children into predominantly black schools.
  • The Bakke Case and the Status of Affirmative Action