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Civil rights movment

By MayRay
  • The Liberator

    The Liberator
    *William Lloyd Garrison Wrote The Liberator An Anti-Slavory Newspaper
    *Went On For 3 Decades And After The Civil War
    *Age 25 Became A Part In The Abolition Movement
    * Then Went To American Colonization Society To Help Free Blacks
    * Was The Most Radical Republican
  • The National Equal Rights League

    The National Equal Rights League
    • Led By John Mercer Langston, Henry Highland Garnet and Frederic Douglass
    • Helped African Americans Get Full Citizenship After The Civil War Freed Them
    • They Made Sure The Africans Stayed Free
    • Faught For Black Voting, White and Black Republicans
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  • Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan
    • Used To Reble Against The Republican Party's Reconstruction-era Policies
    • An "Underground" Campaign Of Intimidation and Violence To Scare White and Black Republican Leaders
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson
    • Homer Plessy Jailed For Sitting In White Car Of Lusianna Trian
    • Went To Suprem Court To Get Rid Of Seprarte Car Act
    • Violated 13th And 14th Amendment
    • "Justice Henry Brown wrote: "A statute which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races -- has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races." *Plessy Said That It Is Ok To Have Seprate Facilities But To Have Them Equal
  • NAACP

    NAACP
    • National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
    • To Ensure Education, Political, Social and Ecinomic Equallity of Minority Groups
    • Stop Racial Prejidice
  • Ruby Bridges

    Ruby Bridges
    • First Little Girl To Go To A White Elementary School
    • Federal Court Made New Orleans School Desegregate
    • Escroted By 4 Federal Marshels
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    • Ended Segregation in Public Areas
    • Banned Employment Discrimination ~ Race, Color, Sex, Or Origian *Crowned One Of The Legislative Achivements
    • Proposed By President John F. Kenedey
  • Voteing Rights Of 1965

    Voteing Rights Of 1965
    • Peaceful Marchers Attacked By State Troops
    • President and Congress Made Up His Mind To " Overcome The Southern Legislators' From Voting Rights"
    • Presidnet Johnson Made a Strong Votiing Rights Law