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NAACP
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was/is a corporation that helped motivate, impress, convince, poeple to just get used to blacks being equal. -
Television
The struggle for civil rights was so strong that television was invented and became part of american homes in the 1950s. -
Executive Order 9981
Mr. President Truman established Executive Order 9981 gave equality and treatement to the Armed forces of america. -
Brown vs the Board of Education
Like everyone knows, back then blacks and whites were not equally right. But when it comes to education, it definitely had no point and gave blacks a hatred for the whites. This had to change. Eventually, Mr.Brown had to make a stop to it. On october 1, 1951, Oliver Brown and 12 other black parents won the case. :D -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was the very FIRST african american jugde in court. Not only this showed fellow blacks that you can do whatever, but he caused the victory of brown vs. the board of education. I bet if the judge was white, then he would have been guilty. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a woman that stood up to segregation .Back then, blacks couldnt drink from the same water fountain as the whites did. Apperently they said they were "superior" to blacks and will always be better. Not really. rosa parks sat on the front of the bus- as whites should only. The bus driver spotted the problem- obviousely he was white. He called the police .. and she was arrested. Sooner or later- she was bailed out by her friend. This caused boycotts to occur everywhere. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
After the Boycott of Rosa Parks- other people have been inspired by it and have been making boycotts to the bus so the government could change it. -
A. Phillip Randolph
Randolph proposed the first March on Washington to promote equal rights. He was the president of Sleeping Car Porters. He was the most important civil rights leader to come out of the labor movement. He always had the interest of blacks in his mind. Blacks didnt seem to take any action. As a result, Randolph called for a MArch on Washington and more than 50000 people marched in the protest and their fight for equal rights. -
SCLC
(Southern Christian Leadership Conference) had a HUGE role in the american civil rights movement. MLK Jr. and many african americans implemented it. It really just defines itself. -
Sit-ins and Freedom Riders
Four African American college students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter at the local woolworhs store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for coffee. They just sat there and waited.Sooner or later, they got arrested. After the school year, 1500 blacks have been arrested. -
Martin Luther King, Jr.
On August 28, 1963- Mr Martin Luther King, Jr made a speech that awoke everyone. thousands came to witness a spark of change. Segregation has been going on for a long time- and hes had enough. His hero was Ghandi, with the salt march. It inspired him enough to do something about what was happening at the time- segregation. -
The March on Washington
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Civil Rights act of 1964
In 1964, the government created a law that made federal action against segregation. So if a protest or a speech with an angry mob occurs, there can be federal action to prevent it if said so. -
Malcom X
Also known as "Detriot Red", Malcom X was an african-american muslim minister and human rights activist. He encouraged blacks to "break off the shackles of rascism." -
Black Power and Black Panthers
The Black Power and Black Panthers was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization that still gave more reasons that gave whites to have different looka at blacks- to try to give them a change. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was not only one of the first blacks to play major league baseball- but was hated by whites. "ruined the sport" people would say. But why not? Why Cant a BLACK PERSON play baseball? Boycotts occured after his death and allowed blacks full acess to baseball.
