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Plessy v. Ferguson
Legalized segragation -
(NAACP)
Started up to end segregation -
Thur-good Marshall
Lawyer For NAACP -
The Sit-Ins
core did 1st peaceful sit-in protest -
Little Rock School Integration
school desegregation risers -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
school desegregation -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
14 year African Americans stopped riding buses -
Race Riots
Urban violence -
Rosa Parks
Bus protest -
Freedom Rides
protesting segregation on state to state bus routes -
March on Washington
march to Washington for dream of equality -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
desegregate public fatalities -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
7-2-64 -
24th amendment
eliminate pollutant -
Malcolm X
Racial pride-preacher -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
eliminated literacy tests for voting -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
-Protect voting rights -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
Segregation by law or by custom -
Emmett Till
Lynched in Mississippi -
Black Panther Party
Fight police brutality in the Mississippi -
Dr. Martin Luther Kings Jr./Gandhi/Thoreau/Randolph
MLK Assassinated
Thoreau- Civil disobedience writings Gandhi-peaceful leader in India