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Plessy V. Ferguson
This even legalized segregation - separate but equal -
NAACP
Started to end segregation -
Thurgood Marshall
lawyer for the NAACP -
Thurgood Marshall
Lawyer for NAACP -
the Sit-Ins
1942 this was peaceful protesting in restaurants, or anywhere you could sit down and not leave -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
school desegration -
Little Rock School Integration
school desegregation crisis in schools -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
for one year African Americans stopped riding the buses to make a point -
Rosa Parks
Bus protest -
Emmett Till
Lynched in Mississippi -
Rosa Parks
first person to refuse to give up her seat to a white person on a bus -
Emmett Till
1955 Lynched in Mississippi -
Freedom Rides
protesting segregation on intra-state bus routes -
March On Washington
wanting to desegregate public facilities -
March On Birmingham, Alabama
prohibit diecrimination of race, religion and gender -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibit discrimination of race, religion, and gender -
24th amendment
Eliminated poll tax -
Malcolm X
Racial pride- Preacher -
24th amendment
eliminated poll tax for voting -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination of race religion and gender -
Malcom X
racial pride and a preacher -
Martin Luther King Jr./Gandhi/Thoreau/Randolph
MLK 1968 assassinated -
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
eliminated literacy tests to qualify to vote -
Race Riots
Urban violence -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
Segregation by law or by custom -
Race Riots
Urban violence -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
protect voting rights -
De jure v De Facto segregaton
1965 segregation by law or by customs -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
Protect voting rights -
Black Panther Party
Fight police brutality in the ghetto -
Dr Martin L King Jr
influenced by Gandhi with peaceful leadership, Thoreau for civil disobedience and Randolph for massive demonstrations. Assassinated in 1968
