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Plessy vs Ferguson
Homer plessy, an African american train passenger who refused to sit in a Jim crow car, Breaking a Louisiana law. -
national association for the advancement of colored people
an African-American civil rights organization in the United States -
Brown v. board of Education of Topeka
Known as one of the greatest supreme court decisions in the 20th century -
De jure vs De facto segregation
De jure segregation is separation enforced by law, De facto is when widespread individual preferences lead to segregation -
Thurgood marshall
He won the Brown v board of education case In which the supreme court ended racial segregation -
Emmett Till
Flirted with a white women and then four days later two white men kidnapped him and beat then killed him. -
Montgomery bus boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery -
Rosa parks
Refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. -
Little rock school integration
9 Black students enrolled in the formally all white central high school. -
The Sit-Ins
African American Students sat at the counter that was reserved for whites only and when asked to leave, they politely and non violently refused. -
Malcolm x
Laid the foundation of black power movement -
Freedom rides
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses Into the southern united states to protest. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
Activists in Alabama launched one of the best campaigns of the civil rights movement. It included lunch counter sit ins, marches on city hall, and boycotts on downtown -
March on washington
More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington D.C For a political rally for Freedom and jobs -
24th amendment
Prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials -
Civil rights act of 1964
This act ended segregation in public places and got rid of employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
Voting rights Act of 1965
Aimed to Get rid of barriers that prevented African Americans from voting. -
March from Selma to montgomery
Protesters attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery protesting for voting rights but were met with violent resistance by police -
Black panther party
minority communities against the U.S. government, who fought to establish revolutionary socialism through organizing and community based programs. -
Race riots
A Detroit police raided an unlicensed bar, as the people in the bar were getting arrested 200 people gathered and started a riot against the police. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Leaded the american civil rights movement and helped achieve racial equality
