- He fought for equal rights, and organized civil disobedience which allowed people to protest without violence
- Organized Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasted 381 days. There reason for this was so no one would ride the buses, and as a result, colored people able to sit where they wanted on the bus, and had the same rights as whites.
- Lunch Counter Sit-ins
- Assassinated in 1968
Power of the “Mob”
- The larger the group of people participating in the Civil Disobedience the more effective their actions were.
- The more that acted upon the movement the more they were noticed and heard.
Plessy v. Ferguson vs. Brown v. Board of Education
- Every thing was separate and still segregated, yet they had to be equal- So, the accommodations and facilities had to be the same including water fountains,restaurants,restrooms and more.
- Desegregation
- Equal rights for colored people
Eisenhower’s Role in Little Rock
- Troops were sent to escort the Little Rock nine sately to school, since segregation was against the law
Rights of the Accused
- Gideon vs. Wainwright
- Escobedo Vs. Illinois
- Miranda vs. Arizona
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Overruled Plessy Vs. Ferguson
- Integrated School Systems
- 6th amendment requires counsel for defendants who are unable to afford their own attorneys
- Criminal suspects have the right to counsel during police interrogation
- Criminal suspects must be informed of their right to counsel prior to interrogation
Chavez and the United Farm Workers
- Founded United Farm Workers
- Helped immigrant workers earn right through Civil Disobedience
- Anti-Immigration
FHA and ADA
- The Federal Housing Administration
- US government agency that insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying.
- provide and adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans
- stabilize the mortgage market. The Americans with Disabilities Act
- enacted by the US Congress in 1990.
- It is a wide ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.
- Prevent the opposing side from talking
- Used in House of Representatives and Senate to stop Civil Rights Legislation
Sit-Ins and Other Protests
- Groups would go into restaurants sit down try to order food, after being told "no" or to leave they continue to sit.
- Mobs would beat them, and they would do nothing but sit there and take it.
- Got arrested for disobeying the laws.
- After the first group protested, another group would go, then another, and another. They continued this cycle, which was very effective.
