Civil Rights

By abbysayre

  • Rosa Parks

    African American Seamstress who boarded a Montgomery bus and didn't give up her seat to a white person. Started Civil Rights Movement

  • Southern manifesto

    100 southern members of Congress endorsed this "Manifesto" act and they accepted the fact that they should appose the Brown v. Board of Education ruling

  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Supreme Court ruled that the Montgomery city law that segregated buses was unconstitutional

  • Central High Crisis

    Central High, Little Rock, Arkansas. 9 black students wanted to attend an all white school. Truman used the force of the National Guard to help integrate these 9 students into the school. Only a few of these students however, ended up graduating.

  • Civil Rights act of 1957

    Allowed more powerful investigations of the violations of civil rights to increase. Giving U.S Attorneies greater power to protect African American Rights

  • Presidential election

    John F. Kennedy helped free Martin Luther King from prison after he was sentenced to 6 months in jail for a traffic violation. Then, with the help of African American voters, he won the presidential election of 1960.