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Civil Rights Movement

By xoacb

  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeaka

    Supreme Cout ruled that segragation in public schools is unconstitutional. It's a landmark descion that also causes the overturn the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson "seprate but equal. It is an even bigger voctory for the NAACP sttorney Thurgood Marshall, who later returns as the nation's first black justice.
    Education is too important to let race stop you from getting it The victory in the court case impacts all schools during this time and the one later on.

  • Rosa Parks

    NAACP memner Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat , in reponse to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott until buses are desegragated Dec. 21, 1956. This creates a domino affect in civil right. With a newly elected president of the MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association, Recerened Martin Luther King Jr.
    This event is important because it has a bidg impact, one of the biggest being that it paved the way for Martin Luther King Jr as a great leader.

  • Little Rock Nine

    (Little Rock, Ark.) Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus.
    President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine."
    The little rock nine are very courages for their actions and because of this they draw so much attention to the cause and this is one of the many actions taken by African American for their civil rights.

  • Malcolm X

    African American radical Malcolm X becomes national minister of the Nation of Islam. He rejects the nonviolent civil-rights movement and integration, and becomes a champion of African American separatism and black pride.
    This event is imprortant because Malcolm as an activist showed that he do anything nessary for his right and he made a big impact during this time.

  • I Have a Dream

    (Washington, D.C.) About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
    To me this is not just one of the most important events in the civil right movement but also one of the most iconic. His speech affects everyone and everything.

  • NAACP

    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), CORE and the NAACP and other civil-rights groups organize a massive African American voter registration drive in Mississippi known as "Freedom Summer."
    This event shows how everyone came together to fight for their rights by using a mass, nonviolent method.

  • Affirmation Action

    In the most important affirmative action decision since the 1978 Bakke case, the Supreme Court (5–4) upholds the University of Michigan Law School's policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students because it furthers "a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body."
    This event is important because it goes back to similar events during the civil rights movement.