African American Lives Change

Supreme Court ruled segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

Organization formed to prevent African Americans from voting.

Protest in which African Americans sat down in segregated restuaruants.

Challenged segregated seating on interstate buses by riding in white only sections.

Demonstration for voting rights in protest of the death of Jimmy Lee Jackson

Banned discrimination in employment and public accomodations

Supreme Court ruled that segregation laws DID NOT violate the Constitution.

Tax to be paid to register to vote.

Eliminated literacy tests and allowed federal examiners to register African Americans to vote.

group of African American students that attended Central High School

Laws which required segregation.

250,000 Americans marched to persaude Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act

Leader who advocated black nationalism and violent resistance.

President who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965

Former slaves became equal citizens.

Reading and writting test taken before voting.

Formed by students to encourage local nonviolent demonstrations.

Ended discrimination in housing

Eliminated the poll tax.

Demanded an immediate end to segregation through nonviolent resistance

Organization formed by MLK to stage nonviolent demonstrations.

Organization formed by WEB Dubois with the goal of full equality for African Americans.

The right to vote cannot be denied on the basis of race.

Refused to move when asked to stand so a white man could sit.

African American community refused to ride the bus for 381 days.