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Civil Rights
Laws
Voting laws
Though POC were allowed to vote things such as literacy tests and discrimination at polling booths prevent many from doing so. Civil rights activists and groups would sometimes organize movements in groups to the polls in order to make voting safer and more accessible. Through this era, as more POC started voting, officials elected were largely in favor of civil rights.
Public space laws
Public spaces became desegregated after many years but private corporations and clubs were allowed to remain segregated as the government deemed it an overstep to regulate them.
Current struggles
POC continue to face challenges today within pay gaps, targeting in the justice system, and re-segregation of schools.
Schools
The Little Rock Nine
The little rock nine was a group of black students in Little Rock Arkansas who attended an all white school. They faced verbal abuses every day upon their arrival at school. There are statues of the nine in Arkansas today.
Ruby Bridges
Ruby bridges was a six year old little girl attending an all white school. She two faced verbal abuses by parents and had to eat, learns, and play in a separate classroom from her peers.
School desgregation
School desegregation was achieved through the case of Brown vs Board of education. Before desegregation became mandatory, certain states had rules on desegregation in schools.
Protests
Types of protest
Sit ins
Sit ins were a type of protests where colored Americans would sit at white designated food counters or other whites only spaces. they would refuse to leave without receiving service. These protests were typically silent.
Boycotts
Boycotts were protests where groups would refuses to use certain spaces or purchase certain goods until a change was made within the systems of the good or service.
Marches
Marches are a form of protests where large groups gather and travel in protest through cities or towards monuments. Often participants in these marches will carry signs or present speeches.
Major protests
March on Washington
The March on Washington was a march in Washington DC around the Lincoln memorial. It was here that Martin Luther King J gave his famous "I have a dream" speech.
Freedom Riders
The Freedom riders were a protests group that participated in multiple sit ins across different, primarily southern, states.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott followed the arrest of Rosa Parks. The Montgomery bus systems lost a large portion of its clientele before giving in to protests and desegregating. Though the buses themselves were mixed, bus stops remained segregated.
Jim Crow
Jim Crow laws were sets of discriminatory legislations that allowed for discrimination and segregation in the US