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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Outlawed segregation in public falcilities by decreeing that, "all persons... shall be entiited to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations" -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Supreme Court ruled that separation of races in public space was legal and didn't go against the Fourteenth Amendment. -
NAACP
Aimed for full equality of all races. -
Rcae Riots
African Americans set new goals for themselves and started to change their attitudes towards themselves, often using the phrase "Black is beautiful" -
Thurgood Marshall
Leader for 23 law students who were dedicated to fighting racism in court and won 29 out of 32 court cases agured before the Surpeme Court. -
Little Rock School Interegation
Little Rock citizens were very upset and angry at the admitistration allowing admission to the blaclk students who were now welcome. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Linda Brown had charged the board of education with violating her rights by denying her admission to an all white elementary school 4 blocks from her house. -
Emmett Till
African American teenager who was lynched at age 14 for supposedly flirting with a white lady in Mississippi. -
Rosa Parks
Refused to get up from her seat for a white guy in protest. -
Dr. Martian Luther King Jr./Gandhi/Thoreau/Randolph
Joined ministers and leaders in the SCLC which purpose was "to carry nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship". Protested Peacefully. -
The Sit-Ins
4 black students from North Carolina sat down at Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina as protest. -
De Jure vs De Facto Segregation
Segregation existed by practice and custom but also by law since eliminating it would requires changing peoples attitudes than repealing law. -
Freedom Rides
A white civil rights activist joined other core memebers on a historic bus trip to the South. The two bus trip would testthe Surpeme Court decisions. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
Movement organized and led by young African Americans in attempt to change the city's discrimination laws. -
March on Washington
Over 200,000 Americans gathered together in a political rally organized by a number of Civil Rights and religious groups that would help shed light on the poltical and social challenges African Americans faced. -
Malcolm X
Openly preached Elijah Muhammad's views that whites were the cause of the black conditions and that blacks should be separate from the white society and helped African Americans gain racial pride. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended Segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Aimed to overcome legal barriers at state and local levels so African Americans could have their right to vote. -
24th Amendment
Poll taxes were abolished -
Black Panther Party
Fight police brutality in the ghetto and helped set up systems and serves to help out the black community. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
Protesters getting others to focus on the efforts of registering African American voters in the South.
