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Segregation In Public and Schooling
The Plessy Vs Ferguson case rules that segregation is legal as long as if it is separate but equal. This states that they are allowed to keep whites and blacks separated in every aspect of life, as long as their facilities are equal. In schools the Jim Crow laws gave the states the right to have completely different schools and most of the time even though they were meant to be equal, they usually weren't. -
Segregation at Home and at Work
The government supported racial zoning for a while witch means that they can make all white neighborhoods but then in 1951 the supreme court outlawed it. With marriage for a while it was seen as when whites and blacks mixed it was seen as a threat to the purity of the white race. With work most of the time blacks got manual labor jobs if any job at all while whites still got the good jobs. -
Courts Begin Desegregation
It had been a slow process of taking away the Jim Crow laws but one big victory was the Brown Vs board of education case. This was a case where they basically combined a bunch of cases because they where all shooting for the same thing. They argued that segregation hurts African Americans. The ruling ended up being that there would be no more segregation in schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On this day Rosa Parks started a movement by refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. This was what sparked the boycott and many african americans joined the boycott. In 1956 the supreme court upheld Alabama's court ruling and they ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional. -
School Desegregation
The brown ruling desegregated schools and many schools in the south did that right away but then of course there where schools that refused. The little rock 9 were the 9 black students that tried to join central high in little rock. This whole incident turned violent and eventually after a while they joined the school. -
Sit-Ins
Four african american students sat down to order food and they ordered but the waitress refused to serve them. They sat there all day and were not served and then the next day 20 more people joined them and none of them were served all day. Some whites would sit at the bar and would not order anything until all of the blacks were served. -
Freedom Rides
This was one of the many boycotts that were preformed in the south and this one targeted the southern bus systems. The court ruling was that in the south bus segregation was illegal and this is what caused the freedom riders to act. They got on a bus in DC and when they got to Alabama it got violent and a mob attacked the freedom riders and they where beaten by the mob. -
March on Washington
On this day more then 250,000 people marched on Washington for jobs and freedom. On this day there where performances from great african american performers and on that day there was also the famous I have a Dream Speech by Martin Luther King Jr. In his speech King spoke about his dream for a better america. -
Regaining Voting Rights
In January of 1964 the twenty-fourth amendment to the constitution was ratified. This stated that any US citizen could not be denied the right to vote. This was a huge victory for african americans and a big step towards african americans being completely desegregated.
