Glossary Term – Event
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the US Commission on Civil Rights to investigate voter restrictions. It also established the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.
Advanced Search
Current Criteria
- ›› Eras and Sub-Eras : The Civil Rights Movement
Refine your search
Refine your search by adding another term. Type 'all' to view all options for the category.
Did not find what you were looking for?
return to the basic search,
search for multimedia, or
search the collection
Showing results 31 – 40 of 145
Glossary Term – Event
Dwight D. Eisenhower re-elected
Dwight D. Eisenhower was re-elected over Democratic nominee Adlai E. Stevenson, with 457 electoral votes to Stevenson’s 73.
Glossary Term – Event
Earl Warren appointed chief justice
President Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as chief justice of the United States. Warren presided over groundbreaking Supreme Court cases, including Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona.
Glossary Term – Event
Federal troops sent to Little Rock
President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black students enrolling in the previously segregated Central High.
Glossary Term – Event
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway to great success and interest. The play told the story of a black Chicago family trying to move out of the city and into an all-white neighborhood.
Glossary Term – Event
Southern Manifesto
Ninety-six members of the House and Senate signed the “Southern Manifesto” condemning the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education and declaring that the decision would have the effect of “destroying the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through ninety years of patient effort by the good people of both races.”
Glossary Term – Event
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
In Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ordered the integration of racially segregated schools, declaring that the “time for mere ‘deliberate speed’ has run out.”
Glossary Term – Event
Birmingham church bombing
Members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American church, in Birmingham, Alabama. The bomb was detonated just before a Sunday service, killing four young girls and injuring fourteen other people.
Glossary Term – Event
Black student enrolled at University of Mississippi
Black veteran James Meredith arrived to begin classes at the University of Mississippi. Thousands of whites rioted, resulting in two deaths and 160 injuries. US troops were sent in to suppress the violence. Despite threats on his life, Meredith graduated in 1963. He had originally been rejected from the university because of his race.
Glossary Term – Event
Boynton v. Virginia
In Boynton v. Virginia, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s conviction of an African American man who refused to leave a whites-only bus terminal restaurant. The Court ruled that the arrest violated the Interstate Commerce Act, which “forbids any interstate common carrier by motor vehicle to subject any person to unjust discrimination.”