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Thurgood Marshall's main goal was to eliminate segregation in public schools. This all started with Linda Brown, who was told she had to attend an all-black school across town because she couldn't attend her community school. With the assistance of Thurgood Marshall, her parents filed a lawsuit against the school board. Segregation of public schools was found illegal by the court. -
Bates was tasked with training the "Little Rock Nine" for the abuse and intimidation they would face both inside and outside of the classroom. She taught the students nonviolent methods and became involved with the parent group at Central High School. -
On-the-ground demonstration against segregation on public transportation. The Montgomery Improvement Association was established by African American leaders to kick off the boycott. Martin Luther King, Jr. was chosen as the representative. Finally, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. This demonstrated that everyone can make a difference and that small actions can have a big impact. -
Black Americans gained a new sense of pride and power as a result of the sit-in movement. Blacks discovered they could transform their cultures with locally organized action after rising up on their own and having significant success demonstrating against apartheid in the community in which they lived. -
The Freedom Riders were a group of civil rights demonstrators who rode interstate buses into segregated Southern states in 1961 and subsequent years to protest the non-enforcement of the US Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton. -
In August 1963, 250,000 people assembled in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for the March on Washington, a huge protest march. -
A federal appeals court ordered the University of Mississippi to accept African-American student James Meredith in 1962. A mob of over 2,000 white folks rioted after his arrival, killing two people. -
Malcolm X seems to have been a civil rights activist, minister, and proponent of Racial supremacy who lived in the United States. Because of the racial violence he and his family had experienced, Malcolm vowed to advocate for black people's rights. He spoke passionately at protests and festivals, and a large number of people listened to what he had to say. With people who've been nonviolent with us, we are nonviolent. -
When it came to voting, African Americans seemed to have a number of difficulties. SNCC and SCLC members were beaten and even murdered. As a result, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized a march from Selma to Montgomery to keep pressure on the president and Congress to act. They became targeted while kneeling to pray in front of cameras. President Lyndon B. Johnson was enraged, and he introduced a new voting rights bill. -
Racism and poverty remained an issue for African Americans. They didn't have professional jobs or receive nearly as much as white people. The Black Panthers were a group of people who claimed that a revolution was needed. They required African Americans to arm themselves so that white people would have had to give them equal rights. Their mission was to put an end to racial oppression. This managed to bring African Americans closer together.
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