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"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
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Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional
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A kid named Emmett Till is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and then dumped into the Tallahatchie River because he alledgedly "whistled at a white women." The two white men who did this later boasted about it in a Look magazine interview. The case became a cause célèbre, meaning a widespread controversy, for the civil rights movement.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her sest on the bus and this began a movement to desegregate buses.
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Buses were desegregated, allowed for blacks and whites to ride the same bus.
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A "crisis" developed when Little Rock School Board allowed 9 black students to go to an all white school. Governor of Arkansas blocked them from going in, Pres. Eisenhower sent in troops to get them in.
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Began with 4 NC A&T students. It was a non-violent protest. Would not leave until they were served. Led to the segregation of Woolworth's.
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Organized by the SCLC and SNCC ot bring attention to need for Civil Rights Law.
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The 24th Amendment was added to the US Constitution, the amendment abloished poll taxes that made it diffucult for poor blacks to vote.
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A law was proposed to ban against discrimination based on races, the bill was stuck in a filibuster in the senate
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In the 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. The act made it illegal to use discrimination in elections. The Act also banned literacy test. The act also alllowed the federal government to step in where states blocked people from voting
