Cival Rights Movement

  • Sweatt v Painter

    a supreme court case that changed race
  • Brown v Board of Education

    Was a turning point of race relationship in the US
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation
  • Little Rock Nine

    A group of 9 black people that enrolled in white school
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    federal voting rights bill
  • Greensboro Four

    Four students sat down on a only white service and they where denied service
  • Affirmative Action

    do not discriminate against any employees
  • March on Birmingham

    non-violent demonstrations known as the Children's Crusade in Birmingham
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington for jobs and freedom
  • 24th Amendment

    prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials
  • Freedom Summer

    Tried to help African Americans voters to register
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin
  • March on Selma

    three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    outlawed all discriminating voting