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Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities. -
Thurgood Marshall
Was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. -
NAACP
An African American civil rights organization in the United States -
Rosa Parks
An African American civil rights activists. Known for the montgomery bus boycott. -
Malcom X
"A man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans."-Wikipedia -
Martin Luther King jr.
Was an American baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and a leader in the Civil rights movement. -
Emmett Till
An African American teenager who was lynched at the age of 14 in Mississippi after reportedly flirting with a white woman. -
Race riots
Riots based in race that lasted 3 days in Detroit Michigan. Thousands of federal troops were called to try to control people. -
Brown v. Board of education
decision orders desegregation of schools. -
Montgomery bus boycott
This took place after Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. The boycott lasted 381 days. -
Little rock school integration
A group of 9 African American students enrolled in little rock central high school which involved much protest. -
The sit-ins
4 African American students from North Carolina A&T college sat down at a woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro. -
Freedom rides
Freedom riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
It was a movement organized in early 1963 by the SCLC to bring attention to the integration efforts by African Americans. -
March on Washington
A large march for jobs and freedom, one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history. -
24th amendment
prohibiting poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
57 mile walk/protest that took place over 3 days for African American voting rights. -
De jure vs De facto segregation
The terms de jure and de facto are used instead of "in law" and "in practice", respectively, when one is describing political or legal situations. -
Voting rights act of 1965
"aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment."- Google -
Black Panther Party
"Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs."-Marxists.org -
Civil rights act of 1964
Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
