Civil Rights Movement in America

  • 15th Amendment

    granted african american men the right to vote
  • Creation of the NAACP

    It impacted african americans
    because it pushed them to fight for their freedom and rights.
  • Little Rock 9

    Helped push for is to fight for the hate crimes, the president saw what was happening stepped in and was the sword in the coffin for desegregated schools
  • Synagogues closed in South Dallas

    Pushed to get everyone who has the same religion to say who cares we all have the same religion why does our skin have to do with anything?
    All got together to sing happy songs and to be united as one.
  • Reverend P L Young moves into Oak Cliff

    This was a gross form of segregation, Gestapo tactics are what the white citizens of Oak Cliff were doing in the event the black citizens would move to the oak cliff, and exposed the passive threats imposed on the black community in Dallas
  • Dallas morning news

    This was an abuse of power imposed by the Dallas government by making a self serving article that also depicted desegregation as harmful towards citizens.
  • Brown vs Board of education

    This impact was great because this would allow children of both races to be raised with each other in a close environment, and also showed the true colors of segregationists blocking off education from the black community
  • Emmett Till’s death

    this affected the lives of black people because they had seen the injustice and the brutality of what they had done to the 14-year-old boy and ignited the civil rights movement.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    It impacted in a positive way because it created freedom riders and desegregated all buses.
  • Dallas Black boycotts

    Boycotts led by Eddie Bernice Johnson
    Was successful because convinced store owners to listen to decreasing sales
  • Dallas desegregates schools

    This shows a huge change in the civil acts movement as years prior, there was massive movements against this, and in the most pro segregation state, was this enforced
  • The order 10925

    used affirmative action for the first time by instructing federal contractors to take "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin,” Established the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity.
  • March on Washington

    This impact was great due to it allowing many people to share a common belief and allowing those who were persecuted to speak out through the voice of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • 24th Amendment

    prohibited the use of poll taxes which allowed more people to vote.
  • The March on Selma to Montgomery

    the capital which led to them getting the right to vote and the first time that African men were allowed to vote was in 1870 after the U.S ended the civil war.