Legal Legacies
This provided veterans with housing and education assistance.
The G.I. Bill
The first black man to be come a Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
The Oldest existing Civil Rights group in the United States.
The massive increase in births following the end of WWII.
The Baby Boom
The Supreme Court case that banned the restriction of interracial marriage.
Loving v. Virginia
This banned discrimination in public and in the workplace.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The head of the NAACP's Virginia Chapter.
Oliver Hill
The group founded by Dr. King to organize Southern resistance to Jim Crow.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The nation-wide project to expand public roads.
The Interstate Highway System
The Supreme Court case that made it mandatory for States to provide legal counsel for anyone who can't afford it.
Gideon v. Wainwright
This outlawed voter suppression tactics like poll taxes and literacy tests.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
A 14-year-old boy who was murdered by White Supremacists for allegedly flirting with a white woman.
Emmitt Till
The student-led organization that focused on more radical forms of protest.
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
The large migration of whites away from cities and towards the suburubs.
White Flight
The Supreme Court case that banned the restriction of abortions until 2022.
Roe v. Wade
This changed the immigration system to allow for a more diverse spread.
The Immigration Act of 1965
The President who tried to create the "Great Society" by eliminating poverty and injustice.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The demonstration of over 250,000 Civil Rights activists to pressure the government to end legal discrimination.
The March on Washington
Virginia's strategy to get around the Brown v. Board decision.
Massive Resistance
Part of the Rehabilitation Act that protected the rights of those with disabilities.
Section 504