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Civil rights

  • Brown vs.Board of Ed.

    Brown vs.Board of Ed.
    Stated in 1954, blacks schools where far away, whites schools were closer blacks had to walk on railroad tracks. Blacks took it to court and they got to have blacks and whites to be in the same school but only in schools.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    There was signs that said:Do not ride the bus,many rode in cabs, walked in any weather for mouths.
  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    Little Rock Nine is nine black students from Little Rock Central High school,blacks where marched out by cops.
  • Sit-ins

    Sit-ins
    Civil disobedience, blacks sat where they only sever whites.Then they got to be severed after they lost losts of money.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    Freedom riders where black and white females and males they rode in forbiding areas,and most where beat
  • Birmingham

    Birmingham
    Is the biggest place in the U.S. May 2, 1963, a large group of children was part of the March,and almost 100,00 children were in jail
  • James Meredith

    James Meredith
    Enrolled in a all-white universty,lead the way leader.
  • Boston Busing

    Boston  Busing
    The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964
    when did it happen it started July 2, 1964
  • Martin Luther King Jr"I have a dream" speech

    Martin Luther King Jr"I have a dream" speech
    "I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights.
  • Martin Luther King Jr

    Martin Luther King Jr
    Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. CST.
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson
    The Impact. Plessy v. Ferguson allowed 'separate but equal,' also known as segregation, to become law in the United States. After this, Jim Crow laws, which were a system of laws meant to discriminate against African Americans, spread across the U.S.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    This program listed the events scheduled at the Lincoln memoral dAugest 28,1963
  • March from Selma

    March from Selma
    When about 600 people started a planned march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday March 7, 1965, it was called a demonstration. When state troopers met the demonstrators at the edge of the city by the Edmund Pettus Bridge, that day became known as "Bloody Sunday."
  • Mississippi Freedom Summer

    Mississippi Freedom Summer
    Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to expand black voting in the South.
  • The murder of Emmett Till

    The murder of Emmett Till
    On August 24, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till reportedly flirted with a white cashier in Money, Mississippi. Four days later, two white men tortured and murdered Till. His murder galvanized the emerging Civil Rights Movement.
  • Formation of the NAACP

    Formation of the NAACP
    February 12, 1909, New York City, NY
  • Desegregation of the military

    Desegregation of the military
    On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military.
  • Rodney king Trail

    Rodney king Trail
    Beating by LAPD. Born on April 2, 1965, in Sacramento, California, Rodney Glen King was an African American who became a symbol of racial tension in America, after his beating by Los Angeles police officers in 1991 was videotaped and broadcast to the nation
  • The voting rights act of 1965

    The voting rights act of 1965
    The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
  • Birmingham Campaign

    Birmingham Campaign
    A movement to protest the segregation in public facilities, restaurants, parks, and stores.Protests began with a boycott and stared a series of sit-ins and marches intened to spark mass arrest.
  • birmingham campaign

    birmingham campaign
    A movement to protest the segregation in public facilities, restaurants, parks, and stores.Protests began with a boycott and stared a series of sit-ins and marches intened to spark mass arrest.
  • Ruby Bridges

    Ruby Bridges
    The first black child to attend an all white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960.
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy
    Assassinated November 22, 1963, Dallas, TX
  • Birmingham Bombing

    Birmingham Bombing
    Date: September 15, 1963
    Location: 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL
    Number of deaths: 4
    Target: 16th Street Baptist Church Wikipedia
    Non-fatal injuries: 22
  • Harry Truman

    Harry Truman
    Harry S. Truman was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States, taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • Lyndon Johnson

    Lyndon Johnson
    Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969
  • orval faubus

    orval faubus
    Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969
  • medgar evers

    medgar evers
    Medgar Wiley Evers was an African American civil rights activist in Mississippi and the state's field secretary of the NAACP.
  • SCLC

    SCLC
    The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., had a large role in the American civil rights movement.
  • SNCC

    SNCC
    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at an April 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University.
  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson
    Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
  • Ross Barnett

    Ross Barnett
    Ross Robert Barnett was the Governor of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964. He was a prominent member of the Dixiecrats, Southern Democrats who supported racial segregation
  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks,
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.
  • Dwight Eisenhower

    Dwight Eisenhower
    Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall
    Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice
  • Stokely Carmichael

    Stokely Carmichael
    Kwame Ture was a prominent organizer in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement
  • George Wallace

    George Wallace
    George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987.
  • Kerner Commission

    Kerner Commission
    The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member Presidential Commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order 11365 to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States .
  • Civil rights

    Civil rights
    the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
  • Affirmative Action

    Affirmative Action
    an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.
  • Discrimination

    the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws
    jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
  • Massive Resistance

    Massive Resistance
    Massive resistance was a strategy declared by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. of Virginia along with his brother-in-law as the leader in the Virginia General Assembly, Democrat Delegate James M. Thomson of Alexandria, to unite white politicians and leaders in Virginia in a campaign of new state laws and policies
  • Racism

    Racism
    prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
  • Black power

    Black power
    a movement in support of rights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • De Facto Segregation

    De Facto Segregation
    Racial segregation, especially in public schools, that happens “by fact” rather than by legal requirement. For example, often the concentration of African-Americans in certain neighborhoods produces neighborhood schools that are predominantly black, or segregated in fact ( de facto ), although not by law
  • Federalism

    Federalism
    the federal principle or system of government
  • Passive Resistance

    Passive Resistance
    nonviolent opposition to authority, especially a refusal to cooperate with legal requirements.
  • Reverse Discrimination

    Reverse Discrimination
    (in the context of the allocation of resources or employment) the practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups known to have been discriminated against previously.
  • States rights

    States  rights
    the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
  • De jure Segregation

    De jure Segregation
    Legal racial segregation, especially in public schools, that happens "by fact" rather than by legal requirement. example of de facto segregation. The high concentration of African-Americans in a neighborhood produces a neighborhood school that is predominantly black (segregated in fact, although not by law). de jure.
  • Lynch(ings)

    (of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
  • Poll Tax

    a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.
  • separate but equal

    racially segregated but ostensibly ensuring equal opportunities to all races.
  • stereotypes

    stereotypes
    a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
  • civil disobedience

    civil disobedience
    the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
  • Desegregation

    Desegregation
    the ending of a policy of racial segregation
  • Grandfather Clause

    Grandfather Clause
    a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices.
  • Martyrdom

    Martyrdom
    the death or suffering of a martyr.
  • prejudice

    prejudice
    preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
  • segregation

    segregation
    the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
  • Birmingham riot

     Birmingham riot
    The Birmingham riot of 1963 was a civil disorder in Birmingham, Alabama, that was provoked by bombings on the night of May 11, 1963. The bombings targeted black leaders of the Birmingham campaign, a mass protest for racial justice.
  • March Against Fear

    March Against Fear
    The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 6, 1966, intending to make a solitary walk from Memphis,
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  • civil rights act of 1968

    civil rights act of 1968
    The Civil Rights Act of 1968 defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin”. Title VIII of this Act is commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
  • integration at the university of mississippi

    James Howard Meredith is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran.
  • Literacy Tests

    Literacy Tests
    Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century. Literacy tests, along with poll taxes, residency and property restrictions and extra-legal activities (violence, intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans.