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plessy v. fergison
court case that legalized racism and segregation. separate but equal. -
Thurgood marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. -
National association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP)
The NAACP aka the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color. -
Rosa parks
Refused to give up seat to a white person and and got arrested -
Dr . Martin Luther King junior/Gandhi/Thoreau/Rabdiolph
All search for peace within the world -
Emmett Till
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. -
Montgomery bus boycott
a African american women was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bu. Robinson called all blacks to boycott the buses -
Brown v. Board of education of Topeka
This ruling made segregation in public schools illegal -
little rock school integration
nine black students at little rock high school were prevented from entering the school becuase they were black -
the sit ins
The sit-ins started on 1 February 1960, when four black students from North Carolina A&T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. -
freedom rides
civil right activist who rode buses into segregated southern states -
24 amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. -
march on washington
this was for jobs one of the largest rallies on human rights in us history -
civil rights act of 1964
civil rights act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public -
march on Birmingham, alabama
it would be the beginning of a series of lunch counter sit-ins, marches on City Hall and boycotts on downtown merchants to protest segregation laws in the city. -
Malcolm X
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march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
to protest a brutal murder and the denial of their constitutional right to vote, six hundred people were attacked by state troopers and mounted deputies dressed in full riot gear. -
voting right act of 1965
secured voting rights for all races. blacks were allowed to vote -
Black panther party
In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense -
de jure vs. de facto segregation
de jure = segregated by law
de facto = segregated by practice -
race riots
a public outbreak of violence between two racial groups in a community
