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President Eisenhower Reconstruction. It allowed federal prosecution of anyone who tried to prevent someone from voting. It also created a commission to investigate voter fraud. -
250 000 people took part in this march for jobs and freedom. M. -
More then 1000 black school children marching through Birmingham, Alabama. -
Southern aggression rising and then since then it gained attraction from the government and had to protect the rights of BLACK folks. -
President Lyndon B Jhonson signs the Civil rights act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Title VII of the Act establishes the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to help prevent workplace discrimination. -
Martin Luther King Jr. called out civil disobedience and pioneered non-violent protest to push civil rights -
In the Salema to Montgomery march, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery—the state’s capital—in protest of Black voter suppression. Local police block and brutally attack them. After successfully fighting in court for their right to march, Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders lead two more marches and finally reach Montgomery -
President Johnson signs the Voting rights act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. It also allowed federal examiners to review voter qualifications and federal observers to monitor polling places. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray is convicted of the murder in 1969. -
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair housing act , providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin. -
The Supreme Court ruling in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education upheld the use of busing to desegregate schools. -
Canfield Drive. 12:01 p.m. Officer Darren Wilson This is where he was shot by the police.
11:54 a.m. Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson leave Ferguson Market and Liquor. Surveillance video shows Mr. Brown stealing some cigarillos. They walk along West Florissant Avenue and then in the middle of the street onarrives, alone in his police vehicle. Speaking through his window, he tells the two men to move to the sidewalk. He sees that Mr. Brown fits the description of a suspect iconvenience -
a petition was set to be signed by the government which allowed rasicm to be fired.
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First African American president of the United states.
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on the evening at this day, G. Zimmerman shots T Martin, a 17-years old African American
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Bill Lee was fired and replaced within days.
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G. Zimmerman was charged guilty of second degree murder.
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People of all races marching and rioting over Trayvon Martin and his needs of justice
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he was shot by a police officer in Ferguson Missouri, I caused a lot of protests against police brutality.
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On Sept. 6, 2018, Botham Jean was shot and killed by officer Amber Guyger while watching football inside his apartment living room. Guyger lived in the same building as Jean, and intentionally fired at him after mistakenly walking into the wrong apartment