Civil+Rights+Movement

= = Civil Rights Movement


 * Brown v. Board of Education**

Brown v. Board of Education stated that segregation of schools was unconstitutional. As up to the 1950's black's and white's went to seperate schools. The United States Supreme Court decided that this went against the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment stating "no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws". This law passed May 17, 1954 paving the way to the Civil Right Movement.


 * Civil Rights Groups- SCLC, NAACP, and others**

During the Civil Rights Movement colored people put together organization to help stop hatred towards blacks. SCLC was abbreviated for Southern Christian Leadership Conference that was found by non other than Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957 after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This organization was put together to desegregate bus systems throughout the south but later decided to try to end all forms of segregation. They went around to ministers of churches to join the group but many of them wouldn't dare go against whites because of such organizations like the Klu Klux Klan (KKK). Another organization that was founded this time was the NAACP which was the Nations Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This group was founded mostly by white Jewish people, the first black president wasn't elected until 1975. They had branches stretched out across the country but their headquarters were in Baltimore, Maryland.


 * Freedom Riders**

The Freedom Riders were a group of people that wanted to end segregation on buses. The group mostly in charge of these Freedom Rides was the group CORE. The first Freedom Ride was scheduled to leave Washington D.C. May 4, 1961 and arrive in New Orleans May 17. They set forth with 7 blacks and 6 whites to take interstate buses that were segregated throughout the east. They sat scattered throughout the bus and many got arrested for trespassing, unlawful assembly, and violating state and local Jim Crow laws, along with other alleged offenses. Many blacks were badly beaten by mobs of white people and buses were even burned. [|Fight for Equality]


 * Civil Rights Bills 1960s**

In 1960 president Eisenhower wrote in a law that made it easier for colored people to vote. It introduced penalties to anyone that would try to obstruct or retain anyone to vote. In 1964 an act was passed to stop all segregation of blacks and whites rather it would be public places or schools. This came about because of the fourteenth amendment stating that everyone is to be treated equal. President Johnson passed a Civil Rights Bill in 1968 known as the Fair Housing Act. This act stated that you can't not rent or sell a house because of any race, religion, or gender. Now blacks could move next door to someone that is white and they wouldn't need to be worried to being kicked out because of their race.


 * How did the Civil Rights Movement address inequality in the United States?**

The Civil Rights Movement made Americans realize that African-Americans were no different then whites just because they were a different color. It brought many new laws that would help out the black community to have their rights to being equal to everyone else. I think the biggest factor was desegregation to making black equal to whites. If it wasn't for the Supreme Court realizing that segregation was unconstitutional according the the fourteenth amendment the Civil Rights Movement wouldn't have worked out so well.