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President Harry Truman desegregates the arm forces throughan executive order after World War 2
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The civil right act of 1964 banned discrimination in employmentbased race, color, religion, sex, or national oirgin
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This amendment extended the right to vote to American citizens who were eighteen years old or older
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The law required states and communities with large number s of non- English speaking residents to print the ballot in various foreign languages
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This Act prohibited discrimination against people with physical or mental disabilities in employment, transportation, telephonr services, and access to public buildings
