civil rights movement

By taylor_jones

  • Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (Brown v. Board)

    a land mark the U.S. supreme court case in which the court declared state laws established separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    was a political and social protests campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, and was a seminal event in the Civil Rights movement.

  • little rock nine

    a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High school in 1957

  • Freedom Riders

    civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into that segregated southern U.S. in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non- enforcement U.S.

  • Sit-ins

    a new tactic was added to the peaceful activists. Four African American college students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter at the local store in North Carolina.

  • Birmingham Demonstrations

    movement organized by Southern Christian leadership conference to bring attention to the interrogation efforts of African American in Birmingham, Alabama

  • March on Washington

    help in Washington D.C. and was for jobs and freedom. as planning went on the goals of the march embraced the civil rights movement.