Civil Rights for African-Americans, Women(Ch. 23.2) and Latin-Americans/Native Americans(Ch. 23.1) In the 1920s women got the right to vote. In the 1950’s and 1960’s the Native and Latin Americans got more rights
NAACP it was formed in 1909 and made up of multi racial activites. In 1965, eighty-thousand African Americans registered to vote in Mississippi.
Martin Luther King, Jr. started the Montgemery Bus Boycot. He statred the poor people campaign in 1968.
In 1964 Malcolm X transferred to a true islamic person. And he speaks at the African Unity Confrence.
Jackie Robinson in 1945 he played for the Kansas city monarchs. In the ten seasons he playe in six world series games.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka it over turned the Plessy v Fergusion. It made the school reverse its policy.
De-segregating the US Military in 1951 was the last year that they were segrated in 1948 Truman gave the order to desegrate.
Little Rock 9 it was a group of African American students that enrolled in the high school. In 1957 the school let them in.
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott it started in 1955. They were required to pay at the front and then get off and get back on at the back door
Greensboro sit-ins they provoked all kinds of emotions in the sit ins. 70,000 people took part in the sit ins.
Freedom Rides it was a ride from Washington dc to Jacksonville Alabama. When they got there the riders were beaton and the bus was burned
Birmingham, Alabama—1963 the sixteenth street church was used as a meating place the bombings were preformed by the KKK.
Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project) 70,000 people actied in one protests. In 1968 6.7 percent of African American had registered to vote.
Selma, Alabama—1965 it was the empotional peak of the civil rights movement. They marched 10 miles a day along U.S. Route 80.
Voting Rights Act of 1965 African American faced tremoundous obsticals to get the right to vote. The act of 1965 got a lot of protesters out
Civil Rights Act of 1964 70 percent of the African American vote went to Kendey. It made public place could not be raciests
Stokely Carmichael at the age of 11 he moved to New York to be with his parents. His mother was a steward on a steam boat line.
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