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The Supreme Court ruled that public graduate and professional schools existed for white students but not for black students. Black students must-have the same rights as white students, and the equal protection clause required Sweatt's admission to the University of Texas School of Law. -
Sarah Keys Evans refused to give up her seat on a state-to-state charter bus. Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company outlawed the segregation of Black passengers in buses traveling across state lines. -
The massive effort to desegregate public schools across America. It was a major goal of the Civil Rights Movement. -
A 14-year-old african american was accused of whistling at a white woman. Then the next day he was brutally killed until he was unreconcilable. -
A movement where African Americans refused to ride buses due to unfair treatment. They would instead carpool, use bicycles, and walk. -
The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was established on December 5, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. It was a major cause for African Americans' desegregation of the buses in Alabama's capital city. -
A civil rights organization as a product of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). Successfully staged a 381-day boycott of Montgomery Alabama's segregated bus system. -
It was the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. It established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to request against interference with the right to vote. -
Nine African American students tried to go into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. People were shouting vulgarities and throwing objects at them. Then once the students reached the front door the National Guard stopped them from entering the school and were forced to go home.
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They denied the school board of Little Rock. Making Arkansas have the right to delay racial desegregation for 30 months. -
A young African American male sat inside a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to move. This made other African Americans do the same thing. -
Since people were boycotting the buses they needed a new way to travel. Making Freedom Rides which was when blacks and whites took rides together to help support the movement of desegregation. -
It was a movement to end all forms of racial segregation in the city of Albany, Georgia. It focused initially on desegregating buses, creating a permanent biracial committee to discuss further desegregation. It also focuses to release those who faced jail time for being against segregation. -
James Meredith was a civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi. Two civilians died, and Meredith was admitted to the university the following fall. -
In the early 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama was a very segregated city. It was a series of protests against racial segregation in Birmingham. -
Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who Byron De La Beckwith murdered. He died from a shot in the Jackson, Mississippi suburban neighborhood. -
The goal of the march was to urge President John F. Kennedy to pass a civil rights bill that would end segregation in public places. So African Americans could have easier access to vote, use the train and place unemployed workers, and end the practice of not hiring people because of their race. -
It was a movement to make black folks vote because most of them didn't in Mississippi. It wasn't successful. -
A hotel was discriminating against colored people. And hotels did not have the right to discriminate against black guests under Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
It was a hallmark of the American civil rights movement. The act was made to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. -
Malcolm X was a religious and civil rights leader and was assassinated during a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. He was assassinated by Thomas Hagan. -
It was a political march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama. Which was the capital of the state. It was for African Americans to exercise their constitutional right to vote. -
It outlawed discriminatory voting practices in many southern states after the Civil War. It got rid of literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
The day Martin Luther King, Jr. died. He died due to being shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel. -
It made it illegal to discriminate in housing because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental handicaps, or family status (families with children). The law applies to the sale, rental, and financing of residential housing. -
James Meredith who was the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi. He began a solitary walk on June 6, 1966, planning to walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. It was to call attention to racism and continued voter discrimination in the South. -
The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously supported busing programs. It was to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. -
Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, New York, was the first Black congresswoman. Chisholm worked to improve opportunities for inner-city residents. She supported spending increases for education, health care, and other social services. She was very concerned with instances of discrimination against women, especially those against impoverished women. -
Atlanta Braves star Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al. It passed the record held by Babe Ruth. -
Jordan called for Americans to commit themselves to a “national community” and the “common good.” Jordan began by noting she was the first black woman to ever deliver a keynote address at a major party convention and that such a thing would have been almost impossible even a decade earlier. -
It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. However, the court ruled that specific racial quotas, such as the 16 out of 100 seats set aside for minority students by the University of California.