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The unequal treatment of the affican americans because of their race.
When Jackie Robinson eliminated the color restrictions in major league baseball by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the colored part of a bus to a white passenger.
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Two events in 1955 helped spark the civil rights movement.
Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. -
This was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States
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The Act of 1957 was introduced in Eisenhower’s presidency and was the act that kick-started thecivil rights legislative programme that was to include the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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A United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote.
