Who comes to mind when you think about the Civil Rights movement? For African Americans' freedom and rights to be treated equally, many social activists fought valiantly. Many more African Americans sought reform and for all people of color to be treated equally and justice for those treated unfairly, even though people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King suffered the price for breaking said laws of "equal but separate." People of color finally won their freedom and rights after many years and several conflicts, as they rightfully deserved. This movement was important because it helped equality.The Civil rights movement lasted about 100 years. Jim Crow was a racial society system that was primarily controlled. Jim Crow law started in 1877 …show more content…
This law violated the 13th amendment and the 14th amendment. Therefore, the Supreme Court made this segregation legal in the United States. The Brown V. Board of Education was a decision by the U.S. The Supreme Court determined the laws establishing racial segregation were unconstitutional in public schools. Oliver Brown filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education of Topeka, after his daughter, whose name was Linda Brown, wasn’t allowed to attend Topeka all-white elementary school. Mr. Brown stated that schools for black children weren’t equal to schools for white children. This case went to the District Court in Kansas and they agreed that the public school segregation had a “detrimental effect upon the colored children” and also “a sense of inferiority”. The Supreme Court's verdict was that this case violated the 14th amendment. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has taken legal action on behalf of plaintiffs in Virginia, Delaware, and South Carolina to challenge state statutes requiring segregation in public schools. Therefore, Brown V. The Board of Education was an important case in the Civil Rights …show more content…
In contrast to his 72 year old Republican opponent, Barack Obama received 365 electoral votes and nearly 53% of the popular vote, while he only received 173 electoral votes and more than 45% of the votes. Obama promised, among other things, to extend health care and end the war in Iraq during his campaign. Barack Obama took office on January 20, 2009. He won a second term in office after defeating Republican rival Mitt Romney on November 6, 2012. Barack Obama resigned in January 2017. In an effort to protest segregated seating, African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to board city buses during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. As the first significant American protest against segregation, the boycott took place from December 5, 1956. Rosa Parks, an African American lady, was jailed and fined four days before the boycott started for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. In the end, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to integrate its public transportation system, and one of the boycott’s organizers, Martin Luther King Jr., went on to become a significant figure in the American civil rights movement. According to the 15th amendment, neither state or the federal government may restrict or deny a citizen's ability to vote on the grounds of race, color, or prior servitude. In essence,