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Plessy v Ferguson
The Supreme court upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregration in public or private institutions. <a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson</a> -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
C.O.R.E organized nonvioloent protest such as sit-ins, with the goal of ending discriminatory policies and improving relations between races. <a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/congress-of-racial-equality</a> -
Medger Evers
[www.history.com?topics/black-history/medgar-evers](www.history.com)Was in the WWII, and also in the NAACP,( Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored Poeple), was the first state field secretary of NAACP. he work in the investigation of crime of Emmett Till. he was assassinated hours after President John f. Kennedy -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier by being the first African American MLB player. <a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/jackie-robinson</a> -
Sweatt v Painter
The Supreme Court ruled that the state of Texas had violated the 14th Amendment by establishing a separate, but unequal, all-black law school.<a href='' >https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/339/629</a> -
Brown v Board of Education
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision overturned provisions of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States.<a href='' >http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html</a> -
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.<a href='' >Vhttp://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott</a> -
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"The Southern Manifesto"
a document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places.<a href='' >http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.html</a> -
Soutnern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Church-based group dedicated to nonviolent resistance;organized demonstrations and protest campaign. <a href='' >http://www.blackpast.org/aah/southern-christian-leadership-conference-1957</a> -
Little Rock - Central High school
Nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957, testing a landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. <a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration</a> -
Greensboro sit-in
A non-violent protest by young African-American students at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked a sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout the region. <a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in</a> -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Grass-roots movement of young activist ,formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. <a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sncc</a> -
"Freedom Rides"
, a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.<a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides</a> -
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"letter from Birmingham jail"
[www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/documen/letter-form-birmingham-city-jailexerpts](www.teachingamericanhistory.org)this is martin luther king, Jr. letter his fellow clergymen explaning why he he was in jail. He then states how Birmingham has the most rasica issues. also why it was time that they come stright to the souces and put a stop -
march on washington
[http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_march_on_washington_for_jobs_and_freedom/](kingencyclopedis.stanford.eud)200000 americans gathered in washington, D.C for the macrh on washington for jods and freedoms. the african american were marching becaues after all this time Afrian Americans could still not get jobs. this is where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his I Have A Dream speach. -
Bombing of Birmingham Church
[http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_march_on_washington_for_jobs_and_freedom/](kingencyencyclopedia.stanford.edu)An African American 16th street Baptist cjurch by local member of the Ku Klux Klan (kkk) Brun down a church resulting in 14 injuries and 4 deid grils. the aftermath was that violence broke loss it was intell 1977 that Robert F chandisl was connvictes of muder -
mississippi freedom summer
[http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_march_on_washington_for_jobs_and_freedom/](kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu)was a nonviolent movement to inegrate mississippis segregated political system. it was a campaign int he deep south to rerister blacks to vote even tho black men won the right to vote in 1870 they were not allowed exercise right. they kept them form voteing with poll taxes literaly test, and alot of other stuff. they started this group in 1961, and they chooes to take this to mississippi which was led by groups like SNCC -
twenty-fourth amendment
[http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment24.html](constitution.findlaw.com)
that youcan vote no matter if you dont have or have not payed your poll tax. A poll tax is tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources. this Amendment wa maninly . -
civil right act passed
[www.britannica.com/event](britannaica.com)civil right act passed in 1964 was a new law that stated there would be on discrimination on the basis of raice, color, religion, sex, or national orgin, required equal access to pudlic places and employment, and enforced desgregation of schools and the right to vote. this law did not end segration, but it did open doors. shortly after the act was pass president kennedy was assassinated the writtes in the south were very up set. -
Malcolm X Assassinated
[http://www.biography.com/people/malcolm-x-9396195](www.biography.com)His father died when he wea at young age which led to his mother going to mental institution. by the age of 15 he had droped out of school. Malcom X was a black nationalist leader who was a spokesman for the Nation oof Islam around the 1950 to the 1960. Due to his efforts the group grow to adout 400 members and by 1952 to 40000 members. Malcolm believe that to cost off the shackles of racism "by any means necessary" including vlocence -
Selma to Montgomery March
[http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm](nps.gov)
Is another march fpr voteing that lasted three weeks or events. 600 civil rigth poeple came out that day and the only got 6 block form were they started before arimed men started attcking them. Driving them back home. this was then looked at the court which put there foot down state that they could not do that . -
Voting rigths act approved
[http://civilrights.findlaw.com/other-constitutional-rights/the-voting-rights-act-of-1965-overview.html](civilrights.findlaw.com)the VRA bans racial discrimination in voting pratices by the federal goverment as well ws by state and local goverment.Congress determined that the standing federal anti-discrimination laws were not sufficient to overcome the resistance by state officials to enforcement of the 15th Amendment. so to change that they add this so stop thing in the future -
Black Panthers
[https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/](marxists.org)wascreated for self Defense. the object of the group was to organations in the U.S `history to militantly struggle for ethnic minonty and working class. they practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. -
king assasssinated
[http://www.ibtimes.com/martin-luther-king-assassination-9-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-day-reverend-1784564](www.ibtimes.com)on this day king was planing to make a speech adout sanitation works . he was a Lorraine motel in 305, when he stepped out on the balconcng to speak with others. in pracking lot below him, were was a man who toke his life. -
james meredith
This is a civil rights movement figrure, wirght, political, adviser, and air force venterian. He was the first black student at the university of mississippi in 1962. In 1961 he applied to an all-white unversity of mississippi (ole miss), he was admitted intell they discovered his raice, then they with drawn it. He then fied the suit Brown v. Board of educating he lost in distrrict ccrout but this case made it all the way to the U.S supreme court which went in his favor.
