1950s Race Relations in America and the Civil Rights Era

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1950s Race Relations in America and the Civil Rights Era

1917U.S. Supreme court declares residential (housing) segregation unconstitutional 1948President Truman desegregates the military 1954The court case Brown vs. Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas) is decided; the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation is unconstitutional

1955Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, triggering a successful, year-long African-American boycott of the bus system 1959A Raisin in the Sun is the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway

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