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Civil Rights Movement ((Freedom Riders definition. A group of northern…
Civil Rights Movement
Brown v. Board of Education Dec 9, 1952 – May 17, 1954Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. 
Executive Order 9981
a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.
Affirmative Action
March 6, 1961
(an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.)
Desegregation of Buses
November 13, 1956
On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's ruling, ruling that segregation on public buses and transportation was against the law. ... The Montgomery bus boycott resounded far beyond the desegregation of public buses.
In 1865, in the union Army, over 179,000 African American men served in over 160 units.
Plessy v. Ferguson is a U.S. Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions such as schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurants.
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. 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.
Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to expand black voting in the South.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was on December 5,1955 and was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which was one of the sit-ins that later led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
The Voting Rights August 6, 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
Freedom Riders definition. A group of northern idealists active in the civil rights movement. The Freedom Riders, who included both blacks and whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960s in order to challenge racial segregation.
24th amendment (January 23rd 1964)
Not long ago, citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. ... On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
Civil Rights Act 1964 July 2, 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. The whites discriminate in public places the whites threw food and cigarettes to the blacks.
Letter from Birmingham Jail was a letter that Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed to his fellow clergymen while he was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, after a nonviolent protest against racial segregation
The Black Panthers were formed in California in 1966 and they played a short but important part in the civil rights movement.The language of the Black Panthers was violent as was their public stance.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization.January 10,1957
The March on Washington was on August 28,1963 for Jobs and Freedom was one of the largest political rallies in history and where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
Watts Riots was a group of violent disturbances in Watts, a largely black section of Los Angeles, in 1965. Over thirty people died in the Watts riots, which were the first of several serious clashes between black people and police in the late 1960s.
The Successes of the Civil Rights Movement
The success that had the Civil Rights Movement were great. The black people fight for many time to had more rights. During many time the desegregation of buses the black can take the bus but they just can take the bus in the part of the back but if the bus was full they can’t take the bus because the whites had priority in that time. Before the Civil Rights Movement happen many injustices and the black people are treated too bad. The blacks also need fight to have the completely right to vote in August 6, 1965. The blacks can't vote if they can't write and read and how the majority of the blacks don't know how to write and read and the people said that they don't know how to do that they can't vote. Are some heroines of the Civil Right Movement such as Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman Nina Simone and they opposed to leave the bus and they made history because they opposed to the discrimination.
African Americans fight for their rights during the Civil Rights Movement from 1955-1965 The African American were treated too bad during many centuries. The blacks were discriminated in public places such as restaurants. The people threw food to them and insult them and the whites don't attended them and how the whites don't attended them and the people threw food and cigarettes to them. They also had a section at the end of the bus and sometimes when the bus get fully the African Americans can't take the bus and need wait for when the bus come back or they decide if they will walk. Everything that the whites do with the blacks were cruelty. The black people fight for many time to had more rights. The black people get tired for how the whites treat them and they want be like normal people and had the same rights because everybody are equal to each other.
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