Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s)

Decision - 1954 9-0 it was unanimous

Impact - Desegregated public schools overturned plessy V. Ferguson -separate but equal

Montgomery bus boycott - Rosa Parks led by MLK major turning point for civil rights

integration of clinton high school in TN - First school desegregated blew up Clinton High school with dynamite

Intergration of central high school in little rock - Blew up Clinton High school with dynamite nation gard came in governer refused to desegregate

Freedom Riders - Fights against descrimination starting to ride all buses to stop segregation. Met by violent mobs who burned buses

Tent city of Fayette county TN - protesting government and eviction for voting

Morches, demonstrations, boycotts, and sit ins - Lunch counter that desegregates

March on Washington DC - I have a dream

Birmingham bombings in the 1963 - 4 little girls killed in a church

Asassination of MLK Jr. - James Earl Ray

Highlander Folk school - Mont Eagle Tennessee school for civil rights leaders

Civil Rights act 1964- outlawed segregation

Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Outlawed the banning of voting based on race, income, or literacy test

Civil Rights Act of 1968 - prevented discrimination in housing

Malcolm X - by any means necessary alternative to MLK murdered in harlem

Thurgood Marshall - Black supreme court Justice,

Rosa Parks - bus sit in Montgomery AL Led the Montgomery bus boycott

Bull Conner - racist policeman that beat Marchuise in Selma alabama

Orval Fabus - governer of Arkansas and refused to let student in little rock

Strom Thermand - senator of south carolina that filibustered civil rights act

American Indian Movement - AIM took over alcatraz island

Femenist movement - civil rights for women equal pay birth control right to divorce

Chicago movement civil rights for mexican americans