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Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy sat in an all white carriage car , instead of an all black carriage car. He was arrested for violating the 1890 Louisiana statute that stated "seperate but equal." -
Malcom X assassinated
Malcom knew that someone was out to kill him , shortly after , someone in the audience yelled nigger . -
CORE
A U.S Civil Rights Org. that played pivotal role in African American in the Civil Rights Movement. CORE was one of the "Big Four" organizations. -
Jackie Robinson
He became the first black baseball player in the mak=jor leagues in 1947. -
Sweatt v Painter
Supreme court case that successfully challanged the "seperate but equal" case. -
Brown v Board of Education
Black children were denied to public schools where white children went under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to the races. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, began a chain reaction of similar boycotts throughout the South. In 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing. In 1955, a minister named Martin Luther King Jr. led the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. -
"The Southern Manifesto"
a document that was written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established in 1957, to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South -
Little Rock- Central High School
nine black students were enrolled at a all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the “Little Rock Nine” into the school, and they started their first full day of classes on September 25. -
Greensboro sit-in
four students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth's in downtown Greensboro, the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites. Denied service, the four young men refused to give up their seats. -
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro -
"Freedom rides"
6 white people and 7 black people left Washington D.C headed for the South. They wanted to try the Supreme Courts ruling on Boynton v Virginia , stated segregation on inteerstate bus and railways. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
letterMLK wrote this letter when he was in jail after being arrested for protesting. He was responding to the public who thought that he was hasty. -
March of Washington
This march was for jobs and freedom. Also one of the largest political rallies ever. -
Church bombing
On 16th St. a Baptist church was bombed by an act of white supremicist.4 people died in this terrible account in history. -
24th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President. f -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
<a href='' >http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-4294963805&dsRecordDetails=R:CS3707</a> began late in 1963 when the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , and the Congress of Racial Equality decided to recruit several hundred northern college students, mostly white, to work in Mississippi during the summer. They helped African-American residents try to register to vote, establish a new political party, and learn about history and politics in newly-formed Freedom Schools. -
Civil Rights Act Passed
piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Selma to Montgomery March
protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery, met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. -
Voting Rights Acts Passed
Passed in 1965 after a century of deliberate and violent denial to let African-Americans in the South and Latinos in the Southwest to vote . -
James Meredith
His first situation with rascism led him to vow to fight for his people. He applied to white colleges and got submitted in and after they figured out his race they said he could not attend. He filed a suit against discrimination. The district court ruled against him, but the case came to the Supreme court and they were in his favor. -
Black Panthers
Black panthers were founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale for self defense. Fought for socialism through mass organizations and community based programs. -
King Assassinated
In Memphis , Tennessee he planned to make a speech . He got brutally shot at the Lorraine Motel -
Medger Evers
medger evers storyHe became a black activist who lived in Mississippi. He fought to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. He eventually got assinated on June 12, 1963.
Quote by Medger Evers - You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
Our only hope is to control the vote.
If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
