The Civil Rights Movement impacted American society from 1954 to present day by starting with Brown v. Board of Education. This went ended up at the Supreme Court and which a ruling was passed to make segregation illegal for public schools. This lead to the doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson. On August 28, 1955 a fourteen-year-old boy named Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi. The same year on December 1st, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to vacate her seat in the white section of the bus. This event would lead toward the bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr.. On the 9th of September, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. On September 3, 1957 Governor
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The people who couldn’t fit inside sat on the lawn outside and listened to the speech given by Dr. King, that speech was an early version of his “I have a dream” speech. August 28, 1963, around a quarter million Americans all across the United States marched on the nation’s capital in what was to become a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law on July 2. On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated by rival Black Muslims while he was addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7, 1965 to protest local resistance to black voter registration. In the early hours of July 23, 1967 one of the worst riots occurred on 12th Street in the heart of Detroit, Michigan. By the time the riot stopped , four days later by 7,000 National Guard and US Army troops, 43 people were killed, 342 people were injured, and nearly 1,400 buildings were burned. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while he was standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,
The people who couldn’t fit inside sat on the lawn outside and listened to the speech given by Dr. King, that speech was an early version of his “I have a dream” speech. August 28, 1963, around a quarter million Americans all across the United States marched on the nation’s capital in what was to become a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law on July 2. On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated by rival Black Muslims while he was addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7, 1965 to protest local resistance to black voter registration. In the early hours of July 23, 1967 one of the worst riots occurred on 12th Street in the heart of Detroit, Michigan. By the time the riot stopped , four days later by 7,000 National Guard and US Army troops, 43 people were killed, 342 people were injured, and nearly 1,400 buildings were burned. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while he was standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,