civil rights

It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace

Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax

Students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school

A policy declared to unite other white politicians and leaders in Virginia in a campaign of new state laws and policies

He based his ideas on Jesus, Randolph, and Gandhi and changed the world with the nonviolent resistance, “soul force”

The NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization.

He is credited with raising the self-esteem of black Americans and reconnecting them with their African heritage.  

equalize education and job opportunities by making special efforts to hire groups that have suffered discrimination.

MLK continued to carry on grassroots crusades, whose purpose was “to carry on nonviolent crusade against the evils

Sat in the front of a Montgomery bus, a section reserved for whites only.

They were beaten, taunted, arrested, suspended from college, and even tear gassed and hosed down.  

This decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson decision. Stated that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal

Civil rights activists rode buses into the segregated south to challenge the non-enforcement of bus segregation

It proved to the world that African-American community could united and organize a successful protest movement.

The movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, emphasizing racial pride and the creation of black political institution

Also known as Bloody Sunday marches and protests held that marked the political and emotional peak of civil rights