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Upheld constitutionally the racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. It established the constitutionally racial segregation. -
Tuskegee airmen were the first African American military aviators of the U.S. Army Air Corps, they proved that the black man can be greatly helpful and fly advanced aircraft. -
Jackie Robinson was introduced as the first African American male to ever play baseball with Americans. Opened up a whole new world of baseball and segregation. -
President Truman ordered the Executive Order 998 which stated, There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. Everyone should have equal rights when it comes to armed forced. -
The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional, it signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States -
Declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. -
Emmitts death was seen as the next step in the civil rights movement, and his death resulted in a bus boycott that lasted over a year, which the U.S. Supreme court ruled segregated buses are unconstitutional -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was all about Rosa Parks standing up for her race, and where they could sit on the bus, she refused to get up and that was another step of the civil rights. This bus boycott happened in Montgomery Alabama. -
The Integration of Little Rock High School was a movement where 9 African American high school students were prevented from going to school, after that governor Oval Faubus shut down the schools and placed a vote to the public to prevent African American attendance. This what important because is showed the bravery and the African Americans standing up and going to a regular public school. This was all located at Little Rock Arkansas -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department, it obtained the right to vote. The president behind this whole movement was president Eisenhower. -
The Greensboro Four Lunch Counter Sit-In was a movement by 4 African American men who sat at the counter even after denied service, these four men created a movement all across the south and even into the north, white and black men all over had peaceful protest in all sorts of places such as libraries,beaches and other places. -
Bolstered the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement. They called national attention to the disregard for the federal law and the local violence used to enforce segregation in the southern United States. This happened from the Northern Cities to Southern Cities. -
citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. This fee was called a poll tax. On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. When the 24th amendment was created President Johnson was the president. -
On September 30, 1962, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi where locals, students and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all white school. -
The Integration of the University Alabama, was when President John F Kennedy Federalized National guard troops down to the University Alabama to force is desegregation, the next Governor Wallace yielded to the federal pressure, then two African American students. The students were Vivian Malone and James A. Hood. -
The Civil Right Acts of 1964 Signed by President Johnson was important because it ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
The speech Martin Luther King Jr was one of the greatest in history, he called for equality and freedom, it became one of the biggest movements in history. The March on Washington was also one of the biggest movements because of how many people were involved. There were 250,000 Americans that marched for there rights and racial equality. -
The assassination of John F Kennedy was a major turning point and here is why; he was all about racial equality, everyone should have the same rights and he was pushing for everyone to have rights, and when he got assassinated people wanted to live on his legacy and remember his goal. Lee Harvey Oswald was the one who shot JFK. He shot him in Dallas Texas. -
Malcolm X was a Principal Spokesman of the Nation of Islam during the 1950s and early 1960s. He organized temples, founded a newspaper, and led Temple No.7, Thomas Hagan was the one who killed Malcolm X in New York City. -
MLK led thousands of non-violent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5 day, 54 mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans marched. State troopers and county possemen attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gases after they passed over the county line. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
The 1968 act expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and since 1974, sex. Since 1988, the act protects people with disabilities and families with children.