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Civil Rights for African Americans - Coggle Diagram

- - - - CORE 1961 Freedom Rides
        
        Who: (some) SNCC members
        What: African Americans and whites traveled in buses going through bus stations opens to interstate travel
        When: 1961
        Where: Route - Washington DC, Richmond, Farmville, Greensboro, High Point, Charlotte, Rock Hill, Columbia, Atlanta, Anniston, Birmingham, Montgomery, Jackson (arrested)
        Why: To test the effectiveness of a 1960 US Supreme Court decision declaring segregation illegal in bus stations open to interstate travel
        
        Violence in Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama
        
        Violence brought national attention and condemnation of Alabama officials
        
        President Kennedy stepped in to help guarantee their safe travel
        
        Did result in the desegregation of some bus stations
  - - - A federal court ordered the university to desegregate, accept him as a student
        
        Ross Barnett (governor) prevented his enrollment
        
        President Kennedy sent federal troops to protect the boy when he went to enroll
        
        Whites began to harass the federal marshals
        
        2 people killed, several hundred wounded
    - - Kennedy Administration responded with full force, US Army
        
        These confrontations strengthened President Kennedy's commitment to end segregation
        
        June 1963, proposed civil rights legislation
- - - - Civil Rights Act of 1964
        
        Prohibited segregation in public accommodations, discrimination in education and employment
        
        Gave the executive branch of the government power to enforce the act's provisions
    - - Selma March
        Who: Dr. King, SCLC members, hundreds of people
        What: Five-day, fifty-mile march
        When: March 1965
        Where: Selma to Montgomery
        
        Drummed up broad nation support for legal protection for Southern African American's right to vote
        
        Voting Rights Act of 1965
        Who: President Johnson
        What: Act which suspended the use of literacy and other qualification tests in voter registration