Civil Rights Movements Jaleigha & Jaisen by Jaleigha Collier

Montgomery Bus Boycott

collierja1 — 2025-05-14 15:37:10 UTC

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a 13-month protest by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, who refused to ride city buses to protest segregated seating.

Source:https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/montgomery-bus-boycott

The Little Rock Nine

collierja1 — 2025-05-14 15:42:27 UTC

The Little Rock Nine were nine African American high school students who challenged racial segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

Source:https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/little-rock-nine

The Chicago Freedom Movement

collierja1 — 2025-05-14 15:48:18 UTC

The Chicago Freedom Movement was a civil rights campaign led by Martin Luther King Jr. and others, focusing on racial discrimination in housing, schools, and employment in Chicago from 1965 to 1967.

Source:https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/chicago-freedom-movement-1965-1967/

The Birmingham Campaign

collierja1 — 2025-05-14 16:04:51 UTC

The Birmingham Campaign, a nonviolent direct action campaign in 1963, aimed to dismantle segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, by leveraging national attention and economic pressure.

Source:https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/birmingham-campaign

The Board of Education case

collierja1 — 2025-05-15 15:25:34 UTC

The brown v. Board of Education case was a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1954 that declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

Source:https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/brown-v-board-of-education

March on Milwaukee

collierja1 — 2025-05-15 15:31:25 UTC

The March on Milwaukee was a significant event in the civil rights movement, specifically focused on fair housing.

Source:https://wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS16479

The March on Washington

collierja1 — 2025-05-15 15:38:09 UTC

Formally known as the The March on Washington for for jobs and freedom, was a massive demonstration held in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963.

Source:https://www.nps.gov/articles/march-on-washington.htm

The stonewall uprising

collierja1 — 2025-05-15 15:44:11 UTC

A series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations that began in June 1969 following a police raid at the stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwhich village.

Source:https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/stonewall-era

The Greensboro Four sit-in

collierja1 — 2025-05-15 15:54:38 UTC

Was a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. Four students from North Carolina A&T state university sat at the whites only lunch counter and were refused service.

Source:https://www.history.com/articles/the-greensboro-sit-in

Oklahoma City desegregation campaign

collierja1 — 2025-05-15 16:00:38 UTC

Katz Drug stores ended their segregation polices and integrated their lunch counters.

Source:https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/oklahoma-city-african-americans-sit-integration-1958-64

Watts riots

collierja1 — 2025-05-15 16:09:37 UTC

A six-day uprising in the watts neighborhood of Los Angeles that began on August 11, 1965, and ended August 16, 1965.

Source:https://www.google.com/search?q=watts+riots&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

The equal pay act of 1963

collierja1 — 2025-05-15 18:33:45 UTC

Prohibits sex-based wage discrimination in the United States. It mandates that employers must pay employees of the opposite sex equal work, meaning jobs requiring the same skill, effort, and responsibility performed under similar working conditions.

Source:https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/equal-pay-act-1963