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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
This case was different because it upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities this law was basically saying they are "separate but equal". -
Gandhi
Part of the MLK movement -
(NAACP)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -
Race Riots
This event, the Chicago race riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois that hurt the black community. -
Browns Vs.Board of Education of Topeka
This event was about how State laws established separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This event in history was sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks and went a total of 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Little Rock School Integration
This School was the first school to go desegregated and got a lot of attention from the press, the public, and the nation. This was very disappointing to the white community. -
The Sit Ins
This event was a nonviolent strategy of civil disobedience to sit where ever blacks sat -
Randolph
A civil Rights activists -
De Jure Vs. De Facto Segregation
This was mostly how the difference of racism was. How it is different in different neighborhoods and how the people thought of it in public white schools. -
MLK
a cicil rights activist -
Rosa Parks
Is a civil rights activist and refused to give up her seat to a white man. -
Thoreau
Part of the MLK movement -
Freedom rides
This event was lead by the blacks to ride interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 -
Thurgood Marshall
The first black supreme justice in the USA. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
This event the Birmingham was important in 1963 because it was in Alabama city that a very crucial civil rights campaign and made the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to help the efforts for the blacks -
March on Washington
This event was where MLK gave his famous " I Have A Dream " speech, at the Lincoln Memorial. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This event in history was huge, The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment was added to the Constitution, to prohibit any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
Also known as the Bloody Sunday the march was led by MlK and marched the death of the local black high school students. -
Malcolm
Human Rights activist -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This event prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment. -
black panther party
a African American organization
