Konspekt USA history
Aim: loans for low income people to buy, renovate a house
· Civil Rights Movements
Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama
Rosa Parks is arrested
To abolish the bus segragation laws
Private taxi plan
Opposed by city officials and bus companies->Luther pays 500 $
Violence: bombing the homes of the blacks
Forming of the Montgomery Improvement Association M L. King as the president
à Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Worked in South, ninviolent fight for civil rights
Outcome:
- Bus segragation laws of Montgomery are unconstitutional!
Inspired movements for freedom around the globe!
OUTCOME The Civil Rights Act 1964
- prohibited discrimination in public facilities, government, employement
The Voting Rights Act 1965:
- no literacy tests, voting taxes for
black people
· Brown vs. Topeka
Mr. Brown´s court case along with other violated African Americans in Topeka, Kansas
Outcome of these cases:
1954 - US. Supreme Court
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