Black Civil Rights

• jim crow laws - 20 - 30s
• what are legal movements

  1954 - Brown Vs Board of education - should desegragate school but doesn't

  1957 - Little rock - banned from entering by Orval Faubus Eseinhower sends in National guard
• popular movements

  1955 - Rosa Parks and montgomary bus boycotts Dec

  black people are 75% of bus users

  leads to desegragating buses

  in 1961 - freesom rides
• Sitins - 1st one woolworths food counter in 1960

  70,000 students sit in within 18months
• marches - May 1963 march in birmingham alabama - attacked by 900 children , name is eugine bull connor
• march on washington - aug 1963 - 250,00 'i have a dream'
• malcomX - more violent approach - muslim - black power
• malcom x assassinated 65
• MLK assasinated 1968
• president role

  Eisenhower 1957 - civil right act which is meant to ensure AA can vote not worked

  JFK 61 says all right things then is assasinated - 2nd november 1963
• after JFK - LBJ

  1964 another civil rights act , bans segragation
• what happened in 1965 


  voting rights act
• within 12 months 400,000 newly registered black voters
• 1968 - fair housing act, stops descrimination in housing