Revision notes - Changes in Civil Rights for Black Americans

Changes in Civil Rights for Black Americans

How Civil Rights Were Gained

Brown vs. Topeka (1954): the first case to challenge segregation. Linda Brown wanted to attend a school rather than a school for black Americans, which was a mile away
Little Rock High School: shown publicly through press and television across the world. Humiliated and embarrassed USA, who were supposedly all for freedom and equality. Pushed USA government to do something to avoid further embarrassment.
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.: led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Powerful speeches (e.g. ‘I Had A Dream’)

Sit-ins: to highlight the issue of segregation, black Americans sit-in at cinemas and restaurants
Montgomery Bus Boycott:
Greensboro sit-in: 4 black Americans demanded to sit at a whites-only lunch counter and remained seating at that counter until the shop closed.
Freedom riders
Voter Education Project

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP)
NACCP: their lawyers helped in the Brown vs. Topeka case, in the favour of Brown
Congress of Racial Equality