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brown v board of education
African American students had been denied admittance to certain public schools based on laws allowing public education to be segregated by race. They argued that such segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiffs were denied relief in the lower courts based on Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that racially segregated public facilities were legal so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal -
emmit tills murder
While visiting his relatives in Mississippi Till went to the Bryant store with his cousins and may have whistled at Carolyn Bryant. Her husband Roy Bryant and brother-in-law kidnapped and brutally murdered they had beat him tied him up in a barn and his face wasnt recognizable Till dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. The newspaper coverage caught an idea and it spread to the news and alot of people started protesting -
the montgomry bus boycott
the lady Rosa Parks sat in the front of a segregated bus where African Americans had to sit in the back and whites were in the front she eventually got arrested and people protested for 13th months and it eventually got called unconstitutional for public busses to be segregated -
civil acts rights of 1957
a legistation establioshed a commision to investigae civil rights violations and and made a division of civil rights in the DOJ -
the little rock 9
the little rock 9 was 9 african american students enrolled in a formaly white school On September 4 1957 the first day of classes at Central High Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the Black students entry into the high school Later that month President Dwight D Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school -
Greensboro sit in
it was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, young african american students stage a sit in at a segregated woolsworth lunch counter in greensboro NC and refused to leave and the news soon found out and it became a big news thing -
freedom riders
the freedom riders left Washington, D.C., in two buses and headed to New Orleans. Although they faced resistance and arrests in Virginia, it was not until the riders arrived in Rock Hill, South Carolina, that they encountered violence. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
this act prohibited public discrimination and it made schools come together and wasn't segregated and it made employment discrimination illegal -
voting rights act of 1965
peaceful demonstrations were organized by Civil Rights leaders and the violence they were met with brought renewed attention to the issue of voting rights. The murder of voting-rights activists in Mississippi and the attack by white state troopers on peaceful marchers in Selma, Alabama, gained national attention and persuaded President Johnson and Congress to initiate meaningful and effective national voting rights legislation. -
MLKs assaination
On the afternoon of April 1968 posing as John Willard Ray rented a room at a Memphis roominghouse near the Lorraine Motel. That day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated as he stood on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel. -
1970s womens rights movements
n 1970, on the 50th anniversary of suffrage, the Women's Strike for Equality brought together a diverse group of protesters. The 1970 Women's Strike for Equality was the largest women's rights demonstration since the era of suffrage -
gay rights of the 70s
Homosexual decriminalisation laws and ordinances were passed by several cities and states, including Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1972, South Australia in 1975, the Australian Capital Territory in 1976, and in 1977 Quebec became the first jurisdiction larger than a city or county in the world to prohibit discrimination -
occupation of alcatraz
After the famed prison shuttered its doors in 1963, Bay Area Native Americans began lobbying to have the island redeveloped as an Indian cultural center and school. Five Sioux even landed on Alcatraz in March 1964 and tried to seize it under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, which allowed Indians to appropriate surplus federal land. -
congress women shirley chisolm
in the 1972 United States presidential election, she became the first Black candidate to seek a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. After the unsuccessful bid for President, Chisholm continued serving in the House of Representatives. In 1977 -
national black feminist organization organization
The National Black Feminist Organization was founded in 1973. The group worked to address the unique issues affecting black women in America. Founding members included Florynce Kennedy, Michele Wallace, Faith Ringgold, Doris Wright and Margaret Sloan-Hunter. They borrowed the office of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women