US Civil Rights

By isasong

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.

  • Rosa Parks

    an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott

  • Segregation on buses banned

    Supreme court upholds Alabama court's ruling that segregation on buses is unconstitutional

  • Southern Christian leadership Conference

    Civil rights Organization. It was founded as an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which successfully staged a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery Alabama's segregated bus system.

  • Desegregation in Little Rock

    a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.

  • Sit-ins in North Carolina

    a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.

  • Freedom Rides

    civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

  • buses and bus terminals must be integrated

  • James Meredith

    American civil rights activist who gained national renown at a key juncture in the civil rights movement in 1962, when he became the first African American student at the University of Mississippi.

  • Dr King gave his "I have a dream" speech

  • Birmingham protests

  • March on Washington for jobs for blacks

    The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.

  • 24 Admendment Added

    ended poll tax

  • Registering African Americans voters in Mississippi

  • Civil Rights Act

    banned discrimination

  • March on Selma

  • Voting Right Act

    removed reading test to vote