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Plessy v. Ferguson
Established the doctrine of "separate but equal. -
NAACP
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Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka
Supreme Court unanimously struck down segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks,Thoreau,
Rosa Parks, and an NAACP office, took a set in the front row of the "colored" section of a Montgomery bus. Henry David Thoreau he took the concept of civil disobedience-the refusal to obey an unjust law. Labor organizer A. -
Emmett Till
he was brutally murdered and his murderers were acquitted because he was black -
little rock school Integration
National Guard turned away the Nine African American students who had volunteered to integrate little rock central High Schools. A federal judge ordered Faubus to let the students in to school. -
The sit-Ins
African -American students from North Carolina's Agricultural and Technical College staged a sit in at a whites only lunch counter at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro. -
Freedom Rider
One of the civil right activists who rode buses through the south in early 1960s to challenge segregation. -
March On Washington
August 28 1963, more than 250,000 people-including about 75,000 white-converged on the nation's capital. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr 'I have a Dream. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
On April 3, 1963, king flew into Birmingham to hold a planning meeting. During A Demonstration on good Friday, April 12th. -
Dr. Martin Luther King,Gandhi,Randolph
Won the Nobel peace prize. King used the beliefs of Ghandi, Thoreau and Randolph. He based his ideas on their teachings, Thoreau, he learned the refusal of an unjust law. From Ghandi he learned to resist oppression without violence and from Randolph he learned to organize massive demonstrations. -
Civil Right Act
A law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces. -
24th amendment
January 24, 1964 BARRING POLL TAXES. -
Voting Rights ACT
The act eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
50-mile protest march from Selma to Montgomery. -
De jure vs. De Facto De jure segregation
De Facto segregation-That exists by practice and custom. De jure segregation,or segregation by law, because eliminating it requires changing people's attitudes rather than repealing laws. Malcolm X communities livelihoods, culture. -
black panthers party
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Thurgood Marshall
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Race Riots,
Riots and violent clashes took place in more than 100 cities.
