Black Suffrage

The Black Suffrage

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

• 1954 by the U.S. Supreme Court
• Ushered in a new era in the struggle for civil rights
• Outlawed racial segregation in public schools

Other Facts on the Black Suffrage

• A primary target of supremacist groups was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also known as the NAACP
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect black students from violent white students
• Black Suffrage means the right that blacks can vote, or have suffrage
• Started right after the Civil War
• Did not give freedom to African American slave men