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It upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." -
They would contribute to the eventual integration of the United States military and the eventual desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948. -
It symbolized the racial integration of American Society. -
It was an end to racial segregation in the military. -
The Supreme Court held that Texas failed to provide separate but equal education, prefiguring the future opinion in Brown that "separate but equal is inherently unequal." -
It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. -
The sight of his brutalized body pushed many who had been content to stay on the sidelines directly into the fight. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Her defiance sparked a successful boycott of buses in Montgomery a few days later. She also helped spark the American civil rights movement. -
Governor Faubus closed all of Little Rock's high schools for the entire year. The Little Rock Nine became an integral part of the fight for equal opportunity in American education. -
It prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. -
They took a stand against segregation. -
They attracted the attention of Kennedy Administration and as a direct result of their work, the Interstate State Commerce Commission issued regulations banning segregation in the interstate travel that fall. -
It abolished a poll tax. -
It was the very first integration of any public educational facility in Mississippi. -
It was known as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of Foster Auditorium. -
The march was successful in pressuring the administration of John F. Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress. -
Kennedy had initially delivered 400 special advisors to Vietnam in order to train the Vietnamese soldiers against counter-insurgence, was eliminated in Dallas Tx. -
It prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. -
He founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which identified racism, and not the white race, as the enemy of justice. His more moderate philosophy became influential, especially among members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. -
They marched to ensure that African-Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote. -
It was signed into law by President Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
It energized the Black Power Movement. -
Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of house based on race, religion, national origin, sex, handicap and family status.