Following the Civil War, attempts were made to protect the civil rights of the newly freed slaves. The first Civil Rights Acts were passed in 1866, 1870, 1871, and 1875. Those acts tried to protect the ex-slaves rights and freedoms, like the right to sue, to be heard in jury trials, and the right to hold property. The Fourteenth Amendment, 1866, guaranteed all citizens of the US and all citizens in the states in which they lived, equal treatment under the law. It intended to prevent states from taking away the civil rights protected by the Constitution, from ex-slaves. As reconstruction ended and the Blacks lost political power in the South, there was no more federal civil rights legislation until The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960. The spark that started the modern Civil Rights Movement occurred in December of 1955. Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, as Montgomery, Alabama law required. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. became the spokesman for the protest that developed and led the Black boycott of the Montgomery Bus system. The result was felt nation wide. Sit ins at all White lunch counters, marches, and demonstrations forced the government to act. In 1957, the first Blacks tried to enroll in Central High School, in Little Rock. Whites and the governor blocked their way. President Eisenhower had to use troops to protect the Black students and allow them entrance to the High School. The most comprehensive civil rights legislation was passed by Congress and signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination for reason of color, race, religion, or national origin in places of public accommodation, and anything covered by interstate commerce. That included restaurants, hotels, motels, and theaters. The act also forbad discrimination in employment and discrimination on the bases of sex. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed to protect the right to vote. Federal observers would be placed at the polls to make sure all citizens had the right to vote. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 outlawed discrimination in housing and the selling of real estate.
Brown v. Board of Education and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech were two important events in the fight for civil rights.
Yes the civil rights movement started in Montgomery, Alabama
Rights for the elderly, rights for americans with disabilites, rights for Gay americans
The rise of the Black Panthers The Watts riots
A-America B-boycott C-civil rights
The Civil Rights movement was an important time in history. Four events that make it to national television were Alabama and Fanny Lou Hamer's speech at the 1964 Democratic Convention, Angry white mobs against black students in Mississippi, The march on Selma and bus boycotts.
Yes the civil rights movement started in Montgomery, Alabama
Alabama
Rights for the elderly, rights for americans with disabilites, rights for Gay americans
The rise of the Black Panthers The Watts riots
A-America B-boycott C-civil rights
show his support for the civil rights movement.
womens rights and civil rights movement
The Civil Rights movement was an important time in history. Four events that make it to national television were Alabama and Fanny Lou Hamer's speech at the 1964 Democratic Convention, Angry white mobs against black students in Mississippi, The march on Selma and bus boycotts.
American Civil Rights Movement
He helped with the civil rights movement.
Alabama's commissioner of safety during the Civil Rights movement was Eugen "Bull" Conor
The Civil Right's Movement helped to restart the women's rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The number of women in the workforce doubled from 1950 to 2000 as a direct result of the women's rights movement.