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Plessy v. Ferguson
This was a supreme court case based on racial segregation. It ruled that the two races where separate but equal, saying that they had equal rights but they where separate. -
Brown v. Board of education of Topeka
Supreme court case which declared separate schools for black and white children unconstitutional. This overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896. -
Thurgood Marshall
Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a decision that desegregated public schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days. -
Rosa parks
She went against segregation and started an equal rights movement along with the bus boycott. -
Emmett Till
African American Child who was murdered in response to talking to a white lady. He was the start of the civil rights movement. -
Little Rock School Integration
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. This led to the little rock crisis which prevented the students from entering the school. -
The Sit-ins
Four black students from North Carolina A&T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. It was whites only so when the where refused to be served they sat in. -
Freedom Rides
They where civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to protest segregation. -
March On Birmingham, Alabama
A movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth and others, the campaign of nonviolent direct action culminated in widely publicized confrontations between young black students and white civic authorities, and eventually led the municipal government to change the city's discrimination laws. -
March on Washington
It was a march for freedom and jobs. It was also one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
24th amendment
This prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. It 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. -
Race Riots
Social movements in the United States whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for Voting Rights
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had been campaigning for voting rights. -
Dr. Martin Luther Kings Jr.
He used peace to accomplish desegregation and started an equal rights movement by organizing marches. -
Gandhi/Thoreau/Randolph
All of these men believed in the power of peace which influenced Dr.Martin Luther Kings Jr. -
Malcolm X
He challenged the civil rights movement and followed nonviolence influenced by MLK. -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
Segregation by law v. segregation by practice.
