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14; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It was founded by WEB DuBois. The goal was to promote equality, remove obstacles to voting, and to end lynching. A strategy used was fighting for passing of laws in Congress.
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14; It was founded by Ruth Standish Baldwin. The goal was to assisst blacks in migrating to the North. Some strategies used were finding clean homes, ensure fair treatment at work, and encouraged factory owners to teach skills. The organization is still around today.
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14; Emmitt and his cousin boarded a train from Chicago to the South. Emmitt flirted with a lady in a store after buying some candy. That night, a man came to find Emmitt and 4 days later Emmitt's body was found in a river. This became a symbol for the civil rights movement and made more people aware.
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After the arrest of Rosa Parks due to her not giving up her seat on the bus, blacks boycotted busses until the court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional. This event showed that non-violent protests work. It also helped further the movement and motivate blacks.
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14; Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. It was originally led by Robert Mose and Ann Moody. It was establishd to get young African Americans active in the movement. It was more willing to resort to extreme measures of non-violent protests and civil disobedience.
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14; This event was hoping to end segregation in Albany completely. Charles Sherrod sent students into interstate facilities, but they are arrested. Martin Luther King is also arrested, and nothing gets accomplished. Blacks learned that they must have a specific target in their movements.
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14; This was the first major protest King had been a part of since he was last arrested. African Americans first fill up all the jails, and then begin to march. Extreme violence breaks out against them, and this results in Kennedy taking a stand. This event gained national attention and shocked the nation.
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14; The goal of this event was to get the civil rights bill passed. 2.000 people marched to the Lincoln Memorial from the Washington Monument. This is where MLK did his famous I Have A Dream speech. In 1964, Johnson passes the civil rights act.
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14; Just before a Sunday service, a bomb had gone off and killed 4 children and left 16 people injured. Rather than killing the people who bombed the church, the blacks tried to get the voting law passed. This created a lot of tension.
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14; Prohibited discrimination by employees and in public facilities. It gave blacks equal opportunity for trials in courts and financial aid to desegregated schools. Some people still felt that this was not enough because it did not change peoples' behaviors.
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The democratic party was all white, and the blacks were looking for black representation. The blacks were offered 2 seats out of thousands, but they turned it down. This gained national support for black voting rights.
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It allows all properly registered people the right to vote. It eliminates literacy tests and makes equal opportunity for everyone to vote. Johnson even sends the feds on election day to make sure everyone had equal opportunitys.
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MLK joins the march of 600 people to the steps of the capital in Montgomery. Waiting on the bridge were troops ready to attack. Many people were beaten and even killed. Lyndon Johnson gets involved and it leads to the Voting Rights Act.
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14; Government investigations to see if the riots were protests or not. They acknowledged the infrastructure, but said that they were riots. They were a result from the Urban Rioting.
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14; Formed in 1968, and studied the cause of the riots. They acknowledged the United States as 2 seperate societies, a black and a white society. Johnson would not even let the commission tell him their findings because he was so concerned with Vietnam.
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14; commonly known as the Fair Housing Act. Lyndon Johnson signed it as a follow up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It prohibited discrimination in the sale of housing, as well as the renting of houses. This act provided federal solutions.
