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Plessy Vs Ferguson
This Supreme Court ruling supported the legal doctrine of segregation: Separate but Equal. -
Montgomory Bus Boycott
Rosa Park a 42 year old black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery,Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the leader organized the Montgomery BUs Boycott ,which would deprive the bus compan of 65% of its income, and cost Dr. King a $500 fine or 386 days in jail. -
Desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas
Gorvement Fabus announced that he had order the Arkansa National Guard to monitor the school next day. Nine black students arrived Central HIgh on Sep 3 they were keep from entering by the National Guardsman. Sep 20, Judge Davies granded an injunction agaist Governor Fabus and three sdays later the gruoup of the nine students return to Central High School. September 25 Central High School was desegregated. -
Sit-ins
After having been refused service at the lunch counter of a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, Joseph Mcneill, a negro college student returned the next day with three classmate to sit at the counter until they were served. They were not served, four students returned to the counter each day. New York Times drew attention to the students pretest they were join by others studets. -
Freedom Rides
The bus loads of people waged a cross-country campaing to try to end the segregation of bus terminals. The nonviolent protest, however , was brutally received at many stops along the way. -
March on Washington
It is at this march that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech "I Have a Dream". -
Twenty -fouth Amendment
On January 23 the twenty-four Amendment was passed which states that the rights of citizens to vote for president, Vice- President, Senators, or Representative to congress could not denied or abridged (reduce) by paying poll tax. -
Civil Rights Act
It was passed and signed into law on July 2nd by president Lydon Johnson a stong supporter of civil rights. The Act banned discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or national orgin. -
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
This Amendment extended the right to vote to American Citiezens who were eighteen years old or older. Women had been given the right to vote in 1920 with the Nineteentn Admendment. -
Americans with Disabilities Act
Americans with Disabilities prohibted discrination agaist people with physical or mental disabilities in employment, tranportation, telophone service and acess to public buildings.
