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The precedent for this case (Plessy v.s Ferguson contradicts the outcome of Brown vs Board of Education because the constitutional question at hand referred to the separate but equal clause. This Supreme Court case banned segregation. Brown argued that the separate but equal clause is unconstitutional under the 14th amendment which stated the U.S's promise to assure every citizen equal protection under the law. 1952-1954 -
A 14-year-old African American who was brutely murdered for whistling at a white woman. -
Rosa Parks was an African American woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on the segregated bus just 4 days before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. I believe Rosa Parks tipped the tolerance of segregation to its breaking points which triggered the boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott ultimately demonstrated the people's feelings toward segregation. They did not like it and used the boycott as a form of protest. -
After segregation was declared unconstitutional 9 African Americans were handpicked to be the first to integrate into Little Rock high school. -
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960 -
The freedom riders rode on a bus throughout the interstate. They advocated equality and impacted social perspective during that time (1961). (Civil Rights Activists) -
Martin Luther King Jr's incredibly impactful "I have a dream" speech occurred on the same day of the march. The march took place at the Lincoln Memorial and was a display of nonviolent protest.. -
A predominantly black Baptist Church was brutely bombed by a white supremacist terrorist in Birmingham. 4 African American girls were killed. -
A federal law that outlawed discrimination on the bases of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places. -
The purpose of this federal act was to ban public literacy tests because it was discriminatory to African Americans -
600 civil rights activists marched east out of Selma on the U.S Route 80. They were soon met with local lawmen who tear-gassed and billy clubbed them back into Selma. -
The court ruled that the 14th amendment, due process clause, and the equal protection clause all protect interracial marriage. This case banned laws preventing interracial marriage.