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plessy ferguson
1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. -
Medger Evers
Civil Rights activist who oraganized voters registraion efforts and demostrations and boycotts, also worked to end segregation at the University of Mississippi before he was brutally murdered in June of 1963 -
James Meredith
He became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962 -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, CORE was one of the "Big Four" civil rights organizations, along with the SCLC, the SNCC, and the NAACP -
Jackie Robison
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman who became the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era.[1] Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers, by playing Robinson, ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s.[2] Robinson was inducted into the Basebal -
Sweatt vs Painter
Sweatt vs Painter was the Supreme Court case that challenged seperate but equal established by plessyvs Ferguson -
Brown v Board of Education
Landmark case that the United States Supreme Court declared that seperate schools for whites and blacks was unconstiturional -
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Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott of public buses to fight racial segregatrion lasted a total of 381 days which ended in the Supreme court ordering Montgomery to integrate the bus system. -
The Southern Manifesto
This was a document writtin in February and March of that year discussing the opposition to racial integration in public places. -
Little Rock- Central High School
Little Rock Central High School is recognized for the role it played in the desegregation of public schools in the United States. -
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Greensboro sit-in
Series of nonviolent protest in North Carolina which led to a departmet store changing its policy on segregation in the south. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
commitee formed to give the students more of a voice. -
Freedom Rides
These were civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated parts of the south in 1961 and the following years to challenge the non enforcement of the United States Supreme Court Ruling that segregated public buses was unconstitional -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The main purpose of the SCLC was to advance the cause of the civil rights in America but in a nonviolent way, president was non other then Martin Luther King until he died -
Twenty-fourth Amendment
The right of a citizen in the United States to vote in any primary for President or vice president for failure to pay poll tax or any tax. Also it was ratified by states January 23, 1964 -
"Letter from Birmingham jail"
This letter stated from Martin Luther King that people have the right to take break unfair laws and to take action rather then wait for the courts to step in. -
March On Washington
it was a political rally about jobs and freedom. they was organized by civil rights activists. -
Bombing of Birmingham church
On September 15 the 16th street baptist church becam the 3rd church bomb in 11 days coming after the federal court ordered the integration of Alabamas school system. over 200 prople was in that church that day, the most rememberble of all was the four black girls found dead in the basement. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
hundreds of volunteers and civil rights workers got together in the summer of 1964 to challenge the denial of Blacks from voting and getting a decent education and holding office becasue of this some of the barriors to voting have changed and they have close to a 1000 people holding office -
Civil Rights Act Passed
This ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
Voting Rights Act approved
it did not allow discrimination when it came to voting in the southern states and literacy testing as well as a requirement -
Malcolm X assassinatted
Malcolm X was at a rally getting ready to speak when a member of the nation of Islam jumped up and yelled "Nigger" to distract the audience so that another member could shoot the minister and kill him. -
Selma to Montgomery march
This was three marches that took place in part of the voting rights movement. it was a landmark achievement of the civil rights movement that activist showed marched the 54mile highway from selma to alabama state capital to exercise there right to vote -
Black Panthers
The Black Panthers was formed in California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale they believed in equality in education, housing, employment and civil rights. -
King assassinated
He was a civil rights leader who fought for the rights of his fellow man and woman up until hi unmtimely death in 1968
