Ill treatment in stores, restaurants, and other public places.
100
Civil Rights Act of 1964
It made it illegal for any government office or place of business to practice segregation.
100
I. Beverly Lake
He ran for governor in the Democratic primary against Terry Sanfod.
100
Lyndon B. Johnson
He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
100
Darius Swann
A professor at Johnson C. Smith University, sued to have his son be admitted to a neighboring white school
200
Elizabeth Pearsall
She said, “Why, if they are good enough to defend you, are they not good enough to be served by you?”
200
Voting Rights Act of 1965.
This law identified counties throughout the South known to have kept blacks from registering to vote.
200
Pre-1900 voting patterns.
In the west, voting Republican actually meant a return to this era.
200
John F. Kennedy
He was assassinated in Dallas,Texas
200
Judge James B. McMillan
In 1969, he ruled that the civil rights laws called for “equality.” To give blacks the same “initiative” as whites in education, schools would have to be mixed.
300
Ezell Blair, Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and Joseph McNeil
February 1, 1960, these four A&T University students sat at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro.
300
Dr. Reginald Hawkins of Charlotte
He ran for the Democratic nomination for governor and received more than 100,000 votes.
300
The east
Here Democrats remained registered in their party, but voted more and more for Republicans.
300
Abraham Lincoln
He was the president that has influenced President Obama.
300
Mecklenburg
This County soon implemented a busing plan that drove young students all over town to schools miles from their homes.
400
Smithsonian Institution
The Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter and stools became an exhibit at what place?
400
Howard Lee
He became mayor of Chapel Hill.
400
KKK
They were embarrassed by the Lumbee in Robeson County in 1958 when they were run away.
400
Ronald Regan
He is credited for ending the Cold War.
400
Boston,
Busing in Charlotte was done without violence, as was the case in Winston- Salem. But, when busing was ordered to integrate northern cities like this city violence erupted.
500
Congress of Racial Equality
Generally called CORE
500
African Americans
Because the Democratic Party in the North had led the effort to pass the laws, almost all of them registered as Democrats.
500
The Swann Case
In 1969, the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., used the authority of the Civil Rights Act to order the closing of black schools throughout the South. A school could only be used if it was fully integrated.