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Jim Crow Laws
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Plessy V Ferguson
Created "Separate but equal" - segregation was not unconstitutional as long as separate facilities were equal -
NAACP formed
Group of black activists fighting for rights in the Civil Rights Movement -
Mines and Works Act
Restricted Africans from most skilled jobs working in the mines during the Mineral Revolution -
Natives Labour Regulation Act
Established pass books which gave them permission to enter "white areas" where they worked -
Natives Land Act
Restricted African ownership of land to 7% -
Natives (Urban Areas) Act
Africans employed in the mines were expected to live in impoverished townships built for them outside cities -
Industrial Concilliation Act
Restricted African rights to organise trade unions and negotiate terms of employment -
Representation of the Natives act
Africans were treated as foreigners with no rights of permanent residence outside designated Bantusans. The few black south africans who were allowed to vote were no longer allowed to. -
ANCYL is formed
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Period: to
Truman's Presidency
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Apartheid officially established
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Period: to
National Party rule
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Durban Riots
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Population Registation Act
Categorised every south african by race to be kept strictly separate. Mixed marriages were prohibited. -
Defiance Campaign
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Period: to
Albert Luthuli leads the ANC
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Sophiatown is destroyed
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Bantu Education Act
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Period: to
Eisenhower's Presidency
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Brown v Board
Desegregated schools -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Emmet Till murder
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Treason Trial
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Little Rock Arkansas
9 Black students enrolled at a all white high school in Arkansas. -
The Potato Boycott
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Alexandra Bus Boycott
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Sit-ins
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SNCC is formed
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Sharpeville Massacre
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Freedom Rides
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Period: to
Kennedy's presidency
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Rivonia Trial
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Civil Rights Act
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Voting Rights Act
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Bloody Sunday
March in Selma turned violent