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It essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation.it prevented constitutional challenges to racial segregation for more than half a century until it was finally overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. -
They helped encourage the eventual integration of the U.S. armed forces. Set the pattern for direct action protests popularized by civil rights activists in later decades. -
They realized that they enjoyed watching them play together and wanted to integrate it. With the help of Jackie Robinson he was able to set the stage for burgeoning civil rights movement. -
It was an end to racial segregation in the military and now everybody would be treated the same way no matter of race.It was important because people who were in it were going to be treated equally. -
It had challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation. Which then made it able for public schools to be equal. -
It declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. -
They wanted justice for him because it was not true of what he did to that lady. It was a spark in the upsurge of activism and resistance. -
She refused to give her seat up to a white man and it caused many problems. The Montgomery bus boycott happened because of that and also came MLK. -
Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school. -
It established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Its use of nonviolence inspired the Freedom Riders and others to take up the cause of integration in the South, furthering the cause of equal rights in the United States. -
he Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement -
The House passed the Twenty-fourth Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections. At the time, five states maintained poll taxes which disproportionately affected African-American voters -
Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. -
The march and speech were a turning point for the movement. They needed an event that would take the movement nationwide -
He wanted equality for America so that there could be an end in segregation in education, public places, and protect the rights of African-Americans. Some people didn't agree so he was assassinated because of those reasons so it was a turning point. -
It prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. -
His martyrdom, ideas, and speeches contributed to the development of Black nationalist ideology and the Black Power movement. -
t greatly reduced the disparity between Black and white voters in the U.S. and allowed greater numbers of African Americans to participate in politics and government at the local, state and national level. -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.