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Plessy v Ferguson
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson
case stated that places could still be segregated but they have to be equal. -
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Medger evers
http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers-9542324
a civil rights activist that helped create boycotts for companies that practiced discrimination -
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James Meredith
http://www.biography.com/people/james-meredith-9406314
Became a civil rights activist after becoming a lawer
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congress of racial equality
http://www.core-online.org/History/history.htm
founded by an interracial group of youth that wanted to change racist attitude -
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Jackie Robinson
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/jackie-robinson
Broke the color barrier in major league baseball -
Sweatt v Painter
http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/09/21/sweatt-v-painter/
A black mail carrier applied for the texas school of law. saying that the texas school of law and the texas school of law for negreos. -
Brown v Board of Education
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka
over turned the plessy v ferguson -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott
after rosa parks refused to give up her seat, MLK called for a peaceful boycott of the bus system -
The Southern Manifesto
http://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/southern-manifesto-introduced-march-12-1956-019897
Claimed that brown v board of education was an over reach of judicial power -
Southern Christian Leadership conference
http://nationalsclc.org/about-us/history/
A congregation of leaders from ten states met in alabama to discuss non violent integration -
Little Rock, Central high school integrated
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SNCC
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sncc
started to help give blacks more of a voice. it helped people get involved and increased the speed for which things were done -
Greensboro sit in
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in
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Freedom riders
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides
Many people left from washington D.C and rode the buses into the deep south. every stop along the way blacks would use white only service counters and water fountains. and vice versa -
Letter From Birmingham jail
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Discusses non-violent protests to racism -
March on Washington
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington
People of all color marched on Washington for equality of blacks. demanding fairness in pay and jobs. -
Bombing of Birmingham church
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/birmingham-church-bombing
a bomb blew up before a service at the 16th street baptist church -
XXIV Amendment
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States_of_America_1992
no person should be removed from the right to vote for not paying poll tax -
Civil rights act
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=97
For the equal treatment of people no matter race -
Mississippi freedom summer
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-summer
to help expand black voting in the south -
Malcolm X assassination
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm-x-assassinated
Malcolm X (leader of the black panthers) was murdered -
Selma to Montgomery march
http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_selma_to_montgomery_march/
MLK led thousands of non-violent protesters to the steps of the Montgomery capital building -
Voting rights act approved
https://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=100
the voting rights were approved -
MLK assassinated
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination
MLK shot by a rifle on the second floor of a hotel -
Black Panthers
A political party based on violence and fear to get their communist ideals heard.
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/