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Desegregation of the Armed Forces
President Harry Truman desegregates the arm forces throughan executive order after World War 2 -
Oliver Brown v. Board of Education
In 1952, the supreme court heard a number of school-segregation cases, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. It decided unanimously in 1945 that segregation was unconstitutional, overthrowing the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that had set the precedent seperat but equal -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a 42 year old black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system and led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation. -
Sit-in
After having been refused service at the lunch counter of a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, Joseph McNiell, a negro college student, returned the next day with three classmates to sit at the counter untill they were served -
freedom rides
Bus loads of people waged a cross-country campaign to try to end the segregation of bus terminals. The nonviolent protest, however, was brutally receivedat many stops along the way -
Twenty-fourth Amendment
This amendment was passed which stated that the rights of citizens to vote for president,vice president, senator, or representatives to congress could not be denied by paying poll tax -
The civil rights act
The civil right act of 1964 banned discrimination in employmentbased race, color, religion, sex, or national oirgin -
Twenty-sixth Amendment
This amendment extended the right to vote to American citizens who were eighteen years old or older -
Voting Rights Act
The law required states and communities with large number s of non- English speaking residents to print the ballot in various foreign languages -
Americans with Disabilities Act
This Act prohibited discrimination against people with physical or mental disabilities in employment, transportation, telephonr services, and access to public buildings
