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Civil right orders
These orders were aimed at protecting the rights of the newly freed slaves. They made it so you could not own another person in any way shape or from. This was the single largest and first step for civil right and the next steps didnt come for a long time. -
Plessy V Ferguson
This Supreme Court case “Plessy V Ferguson” challenged the “Seperate but equal” Which made the segregation legal as long as the 2 things were equal. Making Jim Crow laws legal in schools, restaurants, bathrooms, etc. But this court case showed how they were just not equal and they will probably never be. Meaning they were violating the 14 amendment of equal protection. And they won the case -
Brown V Board of Education
A court case of Brown V board of Education made it illegal to seggorate schools. This attempted to change the large gap in funding in black/white schools -
Education levels by race
This shows the different levels of education of race by year. And how it changed through the years -
States with seggorated education laws
This shows the states with seggoration education laws in the USA in 1957. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock 9 were the first group of African American children to go to a de seggorated school. The governor even tried to stop them by ordering the nation guard to stop them. The president didn’t like that and sent the 101st airborne to protect and escort them. This was the first time in history where the government was actually protecting black kids and changed how black children saw the government. -
Freedom bus riders route
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Freedom bus riders
The freedom riders were groups of black and white civil right activists who rode busses into the Deep South to protest against the non enforcement of the new Supreme Court ruling the un segregated busses. They faced horrible villance and even a firebombing. It did the opposite of what the white extremest wanted. It actually shows how insane it all was and changed public opinion. -
March on Washington
On august 28 1963 over 250 thousand people gathers for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom. The crowd was 40% white showing how much civil rights spread out of the black community. MLK had his i had a dream speech there demanding equalitaly and justice. This is considered the most powerful moment in the civil right movement. And built a lot of momentum for the large future changes. -
Government Bussing Act
the government bussing act was in response to uncompliance after the brown v board education laws. This bussed off kids so the schools were 1/2 white 1/2 black. That’s the only way they could find to fix it and it really did kids started likening eatch other despite race. -
Black realistate
This shows how mainly black neighborhoods compare to mainly white neighborhoods through the years and how its changed -
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Police and goverment viliont against protesters
Through out the civil rights fight black protest were almost always peaceful. But were met with brutal violence. One real case is “Bloody Sunday” state troopers brutally beat marchers on the Edmund pettus bridge or in Birmingham police used fire hoses and dog on children to try to stop the peaceful protest. But this also helps sway public opinion. -
outlawed legal discrimination
The civil right Act of 1964 was a major federal law that outlawed segregation based on race, color, religion, sex, or national orgin. It also banned segregation in schools job and much more places. This law marked a major turning point in American history by forcing the states to fallow the laws. Uniting the country. -
Love V virginia
Love V Virginia was a Supreme Court riveting that made biracial marriage legal. The case involved Richard a white man and a black woman who were arrest for getting married. And they thought it was wrong so they brought it to court. And they agreed and said it voliated the 14 amendment .so now its federally protected. -
Voting right act
The voting right act was a federal law that banned racial discrimination in voting. It also banned literacy test and other discrimination in voting. This was huge because it was never a law but the litacery test was unfair to black peoples supressing there vote. After it was passed about 250000 new black voters registered more then doubling. -
James Meredith
James Meredith was the fist American American student to got to the university of Mississippi. His community responded with viliont protests that ended in 2 deaths and hundreds injured. The president send massive amounts of troops to protect him. This was a symbol to most that higher education was possible. -
wealth gap by racial group
This shows what race get percentages of money in the USA in the year -
Black/hispanic wealth group
This shows the wealth gap in between races -
Affirmative Action
Affirmative action was policy’s to give opertunitys for historically marginalized groups. A major place they tired to give a head start was education. They tried to balance in education work and other places. Also this address the major pay gap between black and white citizens. But some found it counter racist so it didnt last long. But it did do a lot to fix the pay gap. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The bus boycott began after Rosa parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. Led by MLK the boycott lasted over a year causing major financial losses for the bus company. Becuse the majority of the bus riders were black. So they had no choice but to fold and deseggorate the busses. It really shows the power they had when the were together. This united the black community. -
First black president
In 2008 Barack Obama was elected as the first African American presided of the USA his election marked a historic Monet in the county hisry and shows the progress they have made. While racism stilll excited this showed how many amazing leap they made