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The KKK was made shortly after the civil war end they would target African Americans and worked towards white supremacy -
The women's suffrage was a long battle for women to earn their vote in the U.S. -
The case of Brown v. The Board of Education was a really big deal for the civil rights movement. It's what got things going by segregated schools in 21 states. -
Emmett Till was killed by two white men because he supposedly whistled at a white woman. Due to this people launched a civil rights movement. -
Rosa Parks sat at the front of a bus on December 1, 1955 and was arrested for this. Which then caused what they called the Montgomery bus boycott with 17,000 black citizens taking a part of this. The supreme court ruled for the buses to be desegregated which then happened thirteen months after. -
The Southern Manifesto was a document written from February through March. This was to settle the racial integration in public places. The Southern Manifesto was signed off by 19 U.S. senators and 82 representatives from the south. -
On November 13, 1956 the supreme court legally ended segregation for public transportation in the state of Alabama -
The Alexandra bus boycott took place in 1957, 70,000 township residents refused to ride the local buses to and from work. Because they raised the price from four to five cents -
The SCLC is a civil rights organization founded in 1957, their goals were to end segregation and encourage African American to register to vote -
Little Rock 9 was a group of nine African American teenagers who were the first African Americans to desegregate little rock high school. They’re the first to attend an all white school, this would be the start for the change in schools -
During 1962 the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith he was an African American student. There was 2,000 white people who showed up to his arrival all the white white people rioted the outcome of this was two people dying -
The Birmingham Campaign is a group of people who tried bring attention to local Black leaders -
The police arrested a guy named miranda on March 13, 1963, police did not tell Miranda about his constitutional rights to an attorney nor against self-incrimination, and he was well aware of his rights so he took this case to court and won now every cop tells you these cops whenever you get arrested -
The i have a dream speech made a really big impact on many people and it influenced the Federal government to take more direct actions to more fully realize racial equality -
In 1963 The March on Washington took place, around a quarter of million people showed up to this event and wanted many things such as an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections. -
During 1964 The Civil Rights Act came out and was a game changer. This act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
The Chicago Freedom Movement is were people boycotted banks and businesses that discriminated against African Americans -
The vietnam war opposition. Many people were against going to war and somewhere appalled just because of the devastation and violence that went on it. Some people said that it was a war against vietnam independence. -
The voting act of 1965 was The act to banned the use of literacy tests -
The Poor People's Campaign took place in 1968 this group was made by Martin Luther King Jr.
and it was made to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States. It was
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