Social Freedom
Civil Rights Movements
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
This act signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1694, prohibeted discrimination i plublic places, provide for intergattion of schiils and other plublic facillties, and made employment discrimination illigal. This documents was the most sweeping civil rightd legislation since reconstruction. In a nationally televised address on June 6, 1963, President John F. Kennedy urged the nation to take action toward guaranteeing equal treatment of every American regardless of race. Soon after, Kennedy proposed that Congress consider civil rights legislation that would address voting rights, public accommodations, school desegregation, nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs, and more.
Rosa Parks
Ruby Bridges
Educational/ training background:
In 1960, Ruby Bridges' parents were informed by officials from the NAACP that she was one of only six African-American students to pass the test. Ruby would be the only African-American student to attend the William Frantz School, near her home, and the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. When the first day of school rolled around in September, Ruby was still at her old schoolI HAVE A DREAM
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ASSASSIN CREED
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Laws, Laws, and more LAWS
State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.