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Landmark constitutional law case of the supreme court. Upheld state segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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Case in which the results were the separation of black and white public schools being unconstitutional.
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A social protest campaign created to fight against the segregation of public transportation
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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Nine black students enrolled into an all white school creating a key step into ending segregation
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Four African American college students sat down in a restaurant and their service was declined. When asked to leave, they refused. This started a chain of protests.
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Studen Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Case where an African American student was trespassing on an white only restaurant.
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Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States
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James Meredith was the first African American to enroll at Ole Miss creating lots of chaos and protests
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Movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
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A march in Washington for jobs and freedom
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Said whites were not to be trusted and helped the African Americans to be proud of themselves
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Prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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Volunteer campaign in the United States to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Malcolm X was killed before he was gong to give a speech in New York
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Three protest marches along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.
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Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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Revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States
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The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in his hotel
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Defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin”.
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The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in the ambassador hotel
