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Supreme Court decision that overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision (1896); led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional. The decision energized the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Civil right act 1957
  • Civil rights act 1964
  • 24th Amendment
  • Brown Vs. board of education 1954
More than 200,000 African-Americans and others marched in Washington D.C. and heard MLK give his speech "I have a Dream".
  • Civil rights march 1962
  • Civil rights march 1973
  • Civil rights march 1963
  • Civil rights march 1968
1965; invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disenfranchised blacks; as more blacks became politically active and elected black representatives, it rboguth jobs, contracts, and facilities and services for the black community, encouraging greater social equality and decreasing the wealth and education gap
  • Voting rights act 1955
  • Voting rights act 1865
  • Voting rights act 1965
  • Voting rights act 2065
campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters. The project was organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of four established civil rights organizations: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), with SNCC playing the lead role.
  • Voting rights act 1965
  • Freedom summer 1964
  • Civil rights march 1963
  • Sit in 1960
first federal civil rights law since reconstruction. established civil rights commission and civil rights division of the department of justice.
  • Civil right act 1957
  • Civil right act 2057
  • Civil right act 1952
  • Civil right act 1967
Was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 when the governor of Alabama wouldn't allow the "Little Rock nine" access to the school. President Eisenhower then mobilized the 101st airborne division to force the school to admit the students.
  • Little rock school
  • Voting rights act 1965
  • Rosa parks bus boycott
  • Assassination of MLK
In Memphis, Tennessee- night before assassination gave speech in church "I've been to the mountain" speech, In speech said that he might not get there- 1000's of death threats, Next night shot on balcony of his hotel- April 4, 1968, 100,000's mourn him and go to funeral, Murderer found in Canada- found guilty (James Earl Ray)
  • Rosa parks bus boycott
  • Voting rights act 1965
  • Little rock school
  • Assassination of MLK
December, 1955 - In Montgomery, Alabama, she refused to give up her bus seat for a White man as required by city ordinance. It started the Civil Rights Movement and an almost nation-wide bus boycott lasting 11 months.
  • Little rock school
  • Rosa parks bus boycott
  • Assassination of MLK
  • Voting rights act 1965
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