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De Jure vs De Facto segregation
Segregation by law vs Segregation by practice -
Plessy v. ferguson
United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" -
NAACP
an African-American civil rights organization in the United States -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Court declared separate schools for whites and black was unconstitutional -
Emmett Till
an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa parks refuses to move to the back of the bus for a white man -
Rosa Parks
an African American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement" -
Little Rock School Integration
Nine African American students enrolled in a white 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. -
Freedom Rides
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 -
March on Washington
political rallies for human rights
demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
Major Turning point in the civil rights movement, series of lunch counter sit-ins, marches on City Hall and boycotts on downtown merchants to protest segregation laws in the city -
24 amendment
prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials -
Malcolm X
an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Dr. Martin Luther King
activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. That March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. -
voting Acts of 1965
prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote -
Thurgood Marshall
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 -
Black Panthers
a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization -
Race Riots
one of the most violent urban revolts in the 20th century. It came as an immediate response to police brutality but underlying conditions including segregated housing and schools and rising black unemployment helped drive the anger of the rioters.
