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Henry David Thoreau
An American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
The court case for separate but equal accommodations for the white and colored races. -
National Association fro the Advancement of Colored People
An African-American civil rights organization. -
Race Riots
Large riots that were from black and whites fighting. -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
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. -
Malcolm X
American Muslim Minister, and human rights activist. . -
Gandhi
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. -
Asa Philip Randolph
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. -
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
The court case banning segregation in schools. -
Emmett Till
African American man who was lynched and beaten after flirting with a white woman at a grocery store; he was killed four days later. -
Rosa Parks
An African American civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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. -
Little Rock School Integration or Little Rock Nine
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. -
The Sit-Ins
When four African-American students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina -
Freedom Rides
Civil Rights activists rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
Peaceful protests for equal civil rights for African Americans including sit-ins, marches on city hall, and boycotts on downtown merchants. -
March on Washington
A peaceful protest for civil rights for African Americans. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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. -
24th Amendment
Outlawed poll taxes. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Banned discrimination in work and public places. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Allowed African Americans to vote. -
Black Panther Party
A group that practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the US government. -
March fro Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
MLK's organized march in Selma for the right for African Americans to vote. -
Thurgood Marshall
The associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the 96th justice and the first African American justice.
