MY black history report DEANDRE B.

Freedom riders The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional.

JESSE OWENS He was number worlds greatest track & field athlete & a olympic gold medalist

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION Emancipation Proclamation A.what it is A.the emancipation proclamation was free slaves in certain parts of the country and was established by Abraham Lincoln.

13 th Amendment Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".

14 th amendment The Fourteenth Amendment provides a broad definition of citizenship, overruling the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford(1857), which had excluded slaves and their descendants from possessing Constitutional rights.

15 th amendment The 15 th amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" slavery. It was ratified on February 3, The Fifteenth Amendment is one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Brown vs. Board Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students, denying black children equal educational opportunities unconstitutional. The decision overturned earlier rulings going back to plessy v. Ferguson in Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

Little Rock Nine The little rock nine were a group of African- American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in The ensuing little rock crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Oraval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

Civil rights act of 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (July 2, 1964)was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that extended voting rights and outlawed racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public public accommodations.

I HAVE A DREAM I Have a Dream" is the popular name given to the public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in human history.

THE END By DEANDRE B. AND MONTICA CLAY