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Thoreau
wrote a essay on civil disobedience -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Supreme Court legalized racism.
(separate but equal) -
NAACP
African American civil rights organization -
Gandhi
Inspired Dr. MLK because of peaceful resistance -
Race Riots
urban riots break out between races (competing for jobs) -
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
didn't give her bus seat up to a white person -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
(Rosa Parks) Blacks walked and carpooled to make a point about segregated buses. -
Emmett Till
lost his life {beaten to death young} to racist white males because he said baby to a white woman (joking) -
Little Rock School Integration
9 Black Students attended all white school and faced riots and mobs almost everyday, assigned a solider to go with them everywhere. -
The Sit-Ins
College black students went to the all white tables and sat down. (kept siting and resisting to fight back) NASHVILLE (many arrested) -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
De Jure Segregation : segregation by law
De Facto Segregation : segregation by choice {preference} "by fact" -
Thurgood Marshall
lawyer for Brown v. Board -
Dr. MLK
non violent civil rights leader {christian} -
Malcolm X
"Protect yourself" Black Power -
Freedom Rides
Blacks and White activist enter white only areas. {many got beat badly} (beat to get Kennedy's attention) -
March On Washington
civil rights march to washington to speak on equal rights and jobs(MLK speech) -
March On Birmingham
(blacks marching nonviolently) Black students being hurt by white authorities -
24th Amendment
prohibits poll taxes for voting -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed discrimination based on your race, color of skin,and religion -
Voting Rights Act
Blacks had to pass a literacy test and pay poll taxes to vote. -
March From Selma to Montgomery
(for voting rights)walked for three days straight to Montgomery {faced physical racist authorities} -
Black Panther Party
revolutionary black nationalist {violent if the have to be}