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An American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
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The court case for separate but equal accommodations for the white and colored races.
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An African-American civil rights organization.
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Large riots that were from black and whites fighting.
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De jure was segregation because of all the violence between whites and blacks.
De Facto was segregation because of the laws in that state or town. -
American Muslim Minister, and human rights activist. .
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The leader of the India's independence movement in British-ruled India, antiwar activist. 1930, organized the Salt March to protest Britain's Salt Acts.
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A leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties. Founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters which in 1937 became the first official African American labor union.
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The court case banning segregation in schools.
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African American man who was lynched and beaten after flirting with a white woman at a grocery store; he was killed four days later.
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An African American civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama
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When Rosa Parks didn't give up her seat on the bus, it sparked a boycott on the Montgomery, Alabama bus system when African-Americans refused to ride the bus from December 5, 1955 - December 20, 1956.
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The nine African-American students that were enrolled into a white school testing the the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation was against the law. The nine received Congressional Gold Medal.
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When four African-American students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina
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Civil Rights activists rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States.
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Peaceful protests for equal civil rights for African Americans including sit-ins, marches on city hall, and boycotts on downtown merchants.
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A peaceful protest for civil rights for African Americans.
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An American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. "I Have A Dream" speech delivered in Washington, D.C.
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Outlawed poll taxes.
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Banned discrimination in work and public places.
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Allowed African Americans to vote.
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A group that practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the US government.
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MLK's organized march in Selma for the right for African Americans to vote.
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The associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the 96th justice and the first African American justice.
