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Journy Towards Civil Rights

By mloftis

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    Congress passed the Thirdteenth Amendment that granted full citizenship to all individuals born in the US.

  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    Congress passed the 14th Amendment, which granted full citizenship to all individuals born in the United States.

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and 60 other ministers held a conference in Montgomery, Alabama, they helped fight for equal rights.

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine
    Nine African American students were chosen to attend the desegregated Central High School, Governor Orval Faubus had the Arkansas National Guard at the High School preventing the nine student's entrance. Weeks later President Eisenhower sent National Guard to prevent any danger to the students.

  • Greensboro Sit-in

    Greensboro Sit-in
    Four African American college students held a nonviolent protest at the segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

  • Busing in Charolotte

    Busing in Charolotte
    The Swann v. Charotlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education Supreme Court case was lead by Judge Mcmilliam. Julius Chamber was the laywer and a civil rights activist, the nonviolent desegregation. The case caused 26,000 children ended up longer bus rides to school.