Brown v. Board of Education
court found that segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection clause "separate but equal" has no place
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
the schools had to be intergraded based on the percentage of blacks in the whole district This cause a great push-back from middle America, who saw the end of the neighborhood school
incorporates the Bill of Rights to state laws and gives equal rights to african-americans
Voting Rights Act of 1965
national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans
Martin Luther King, Jr.
was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.
Civil Rights Act (1964)
legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public
Montgomery Bus Boycott
was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system
Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law for african-americans and women occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decisions Boynton v. Virginia (1960) and Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946)
The reasonableness standard looks at delinquency, default or early termination based on the anticipated or actual harm caused by such delinquency, default or early termination; the difficulties in proving the loss; and finally the inconvenience in finding a solution.
the standard by which a law is allowed to stand because it is reasonably related to a legitimate government interest