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Civil Rights in America
- Bus Boy Cot
- Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
which lead to her being arrested.
- Martin Luther king saw this and took action by
telling all the black people to not use the buses
they used car pools and walked most of the time.
- The buses were losing too much money which meant they had to stop
the segregation on the buses
- Black Power
- lead by Malcom x
- There aims were to use force to solve equailtiy
- Brown vs Topeka
- A Pupil called Linda Brown needed to walk miles to get to a school
for blacks because the white school, which was
right next to her house, would not let her in.
- Brown went to the NAACP for help and they took them to
court which then lead to all segregation of schools illegal.
- However many southern schools ignored this and segregation
continued to happen.
- Freedom Riders
- A bus ride from the north to the south
which contained both whites and blacks to
promote equality.
- But the ride was attacked several times in
the south and did not reach its destination
due to the bus being set on fire.
- This was shown all over america and the
world which therefore equality became
more popular.
- Little Rock High School
- It tested the de-segregation in schools
- Nine black children tried to
enter the school but got
stopped by state troops.
- The President forced them to retreat however this caused a
violent mob to happen around the school therefore the
president sent 200 troops to protect the students for a year.
- This showed there was great support for the
civil rights campaign and the president was
willing to get involved.
- Sit-ins
- Way of peaceful protest
- Caused violence and this was caught on the media and
television which was then shown all over america and the
world. This created support for the civil rights campaign.
- Birmingham March
- One of the most racist towns in america, closed all of
its parks,swimming pools and other areas to avoid
de-segregation.
- A peace march was set up to stop this which contained sit-ins and
other peaceful protests, but chief of police Bull Connor organised
attacks and ordered police dogs and fire hoses to stop them.
- This was shown through the media and the president had to get
involved to stop this, this also lead to the the civil rights bill.
- Washington Peace March
- A massive peace march lead by
MLK containing 250,000 people
including 60,000 white people
- This is were MLK told his "I have a
dream speech"
- The Voting Rights Act
- This was an act which meant that segregation was
illegal for the voting system.
- However because of lack of education meant that most black
people failed there maths and english tests which was a
requirement before the voting.