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Plessy v. Ferguson
US court cases allowing racial segregation in public places. Stated that it was "separate but equal." -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
A civil rights group that pushed for all races to have equal rights and to eliminate hatred and racism. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
US court case that made it unconstitutional for there to be public schools separating black and white students. The case was seen as one that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Emmett Till
Till was a African American teenager who was murdered by white men after flirting with a white women in a store. -
Rosa Parks
Parks was a civil rights activists. In December 1955 she refused to get up from her bus seat for a white person and was arrested. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A boycott held in Montgomery, Alabama, where African American didn't ride on city buses to take a stand on Racial Segregation. The boycott lasted from December 5. 1955 to December 20. 1956. -
Little Rock School Integration
Nine black students were refused entry to Little Rock Central High School. The Gov. of Arkansas wouldn't allow them to enter. This went against the Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954. -
Sit-ins
An act where African Americans would refuse to leave places due to them being whites only. They happened commonly in restaurants and forced owners to jack up prices and remove counter seats. This did not stop them, and it spread up to the north. -
Freedom Rides
Civil right activists rode buses into segregated parts of the south. The south wasn't following the decisions of Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia which made it unconstitutional to segregate buses. -
March on Birmingham
A non-violent movement led by MLK that included sit-ins marches on city hall to fight for civil rights. The protesters were met with being sprayed with high powered hoses and police dogs. -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 Americans went to Wahicgton D.C. for a rally to shed light on African American struggles. It is known as one of the key moments for the struggle of civil rights ans included Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech -
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK was a minister and a civil rights activists. He led many protests, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington. He used ideas of non-violence, which came from Gandhi, Thoreau and Randolph -
24th Amendment
Amendment that prohibited poll tax in election for federal office -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
An act which ended segregation in public places and made it illegal for jobs to discriminate based on race religion... -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a minister and human rights activist. He is known for being more violent than MLK. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
An act that that made it illegal to discriminate races in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
De Facto segregation happened because of individual preference and private pressure while De jure was enforced by the law -
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party was a militant group of protesters who thought that they needed more of a violent action for African American rights to happen faster. They believed more in what Malcolm X said that what MLK said. -
March from Selma to Montgomery
Marches that civil right activists took from Selma, Alabama to Birmingham. The marchers were met by violent protesters but stayed non-violent throughout. These marches raised awareness for the struggles that African Americans were going through. -
Race Riots
Riots between different races that were caused by racial anger. They happened all across the country including one in Detroit in 1943 and 1967 -
Thurgood Marshall
Marshall was the first African American Associate Justice for the Supreme Court. He is well known for being the lawyer who won the Brown vs. Board of Education case.
