The Civil Rights Movement

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    The Civil Rights Movement

    A nonviolent social movement and campaign to put an end to legalized segregation and discrimination in the US
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    Brown v/s Board of Education

    Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional

  • Executive Order 10925

    This led to the creation of the “President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity” which forced those in charge of projects they must be financed with federal funds to ensure that hiring and employment is free of any sort of racial bias.

  • March on Washington

    200,000 demonstrators march in order to pressure the Kennedy administration to initiate a strong civil rights bill in congress. MLK gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech that day
  • Economic Opportunity Act

    Economic Opportunity Act

    Provided job training for adult education, and loans to small businesses in an attempt to solve the worldwide unemployment and poverty problem. The number of people in poverty is based on the color of their skin. This chart shows that more than 3 times the African Americans are in poverty than the rest of Americans.
  • The Voting Rights Act

    The Voting Rights Act

    Overcome previous laws at state and local levels that prevented African Americans from having the right to vote. The number of African Americans allowed to vote greatly increased around the United States after the 1960s
  • The Murder of Martin Luther King Jr.

    The Murder of Martin Luther King Jr.

    This sparked Blacks to fight for their rights and the whites respected Luther Share of black children in segregated and intensely segregated schools from 1968 to 2010 Even after Brown v. Board of Education, racial segregation in schools remains alarmingly high, in large part because of deep-rooted residential segregation

  • The Attica Prison Riot

    Some prisoners had bad conditions and requested change. They were delayed and rioted. The Attica Prison Riot was where prisoners revolted to seek better living conditions and political rights. “If we cannot live as people, then we will at least try to die like men”
  • The National Black Political Convention

    The National Black Political Convention

    A group that got together and worked on issues. The convention gathered thousands of African Americans to discuss and advocate for black communities that are struggling economically and with their social status in America.

  • Barack Obama Elected the 1st African American President of the United States

    Barack Obama was the first African American president. This showed that African Americans were gaining rights and being valued as true Americans