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Plessy v. Ferguson
The Supreme Court ruled that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. -
NAACP
NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, campaigning for equal opportunity and conducting voter mobilization. -
Emmett Till
Till was from Chicago, Illinois, and visiting relatives in Money, a small town in the Mississippi Delta region. Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. -
Race Riots
The Detroit race riot broke out in Detroit, Michigan, in June 1943, and lasted for three days before thousands of Federal troops were called in to establish control. -
Brown v. Board of Education of topeka
In which the supreme Court ruled that separate but equal education for black and white students was unconstitutional. -
Little Rock School Integration
In 1948 Arkansas had become the first Southern state to admit African Americans to state universities without being required a court order. -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
In American law, particularly after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the difference between de facto segregation (segregation that existed because of the voluntary associations and neighborhoods) and de jure segregation (segregation that existed because of local laws that mandated the segregation), became important ... -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement -
The Sit-In
The sit-ins started when four black students from North Carolina A&T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
The Birmingham campaign, or 1963 Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans -
24th Amendment
Not long ago, citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. This fee was called a poll tax. -
Civil Rights act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was a U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil rights advocate. Marshall earned an important place in American history on the basis of two accomplishments. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
That March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. As the world watched, the protesters (under the protection of federalized National Guard troops) finally achieved their goal, walking around the clock for three days to reach Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr/ Gandhi /Randolph
King first encountered Gandhian ideas during his studies at Crozer Theological Seminary. In a talk prepared for George Davis’ class, Christian Theology for Today, King included Gandhi among ‘‘individuals who greatly reveal the working of the Spirit of God.Thoreau served time in prison for doing something he believed in - not paying taxes that went to a war he did not support (this is in Thoreau's Civil Disobedience). MLK went to jail for protesting, as well.
