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Plessy v Ferguson
"Seperate but not equal". It began with an incident in 1892 when an African-American train passenger, Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car and he broke the law. He was then brought to Judge John H. Ferguson of New Orleans, Rejecting Plessy’s argument that he felt it was unfair, the Court ruled that a state law that distinction between whites and blacks were not "unfair",
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Jackie Robinson
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CORE started off embracing a pacifist, non-violent approach to fighting racial segregation, but by the late 1960s the group’s leadership had changed towards the political ideology of Black Nationalism and separatism. In the early 1960s, CORE, worked with other civil rights groups and launched a series of initiatives, the Freedom Rides, aimed at desegregating public facilities. -
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SWEATT V PAINTER
SWEATT V PAINTER In 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, a black man, applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School. State law denied for anyone wasn’t white to access to the university, and Sweatt's application was automatically rejected because of his race. When Sweatt asked the state courts to order his admission, the university attempted to provide separate but equal facilities for black law students. The Court argued that the separate school would be inferior in a number of areas, including faculty, -
Medger Evers
Medger Evers He helped organixe the viter registration for African Americans.
Evers moved to Jackson and became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. Medgar quit the insurance business; right after he applied and was denied admission to the University of Mississippi Law School. -
Brown v Board of Education
FInally public schools were announced that having seperate schools for White and Black students were seen as unconstitutional. The Court also said that segregation has a great effect upon children of color and that the impact is more serious when it has the approval of the law.
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Montgomery Bus boycott
Montgomery Bus boycottThe Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest against segregated seating, this took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Fighting for civil rights, the SCLC held their first meeting to disscuss the use of nonviolent mass action as their main strategy made by its president, Martin Luther King Jr. The SCLC movement was open to all, regardless of race, religion, or background.
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Little Rock
Nine African American students (Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls) were the first to attend Central High School in Little Rock,Arkansas. It took force for them to finally enter due to the white students blocking their entrance, refusing to cooperate
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Greensboro Sit- in
greens boroSegregation was still normal across the southern United States in 1960. Early that year, a non-violent protest by young African-American students at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked a sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout the southern states. The four young black men who participated in the first sit-in in Greensboro–Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil–were all students from North Carolina Agricult -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), formed to give younger African Americans more of a voice in the Civil Rights Movement. They played a large part in Freedom Rides, and any nonviolent riots.
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Freedom rides
On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, multiple bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The Freedom Riders, who were gathered by the (CORE), departed from Washington, D.C., and attempted to bring together facilities at bus terminals along the way into the inner South. African-American Freedom Riders tried to use “whites-only.
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James Meredith
A Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, and the first African American to attend at the University of Mississippi.He graduated with a degree in political science in 1963, then got his master's degree in economics from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, and a law degree from Columbia University in 1968. Meredith also wrote a book, "Three Years in Mississippi" that published in 1966. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote up this letter when he was arrested during a peaceful protest in Birmingham, Alabama. The letter went to several clergymen to address the injustices he has witnessed. -
MARCH ON WASHINGTON
march on washington
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that was denied to these people just because of their color. Martin Luther King Jr organized this march and led it. -
Bombing of Birmingham Church
Bombing
A bomb exploded on Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Known for it having a black congregation that served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. Four young girls were killed, and many other people injured.The violent clash between protesters and police that followed helped draw national attention the African American's fight for their civil rights. -
24 Ammendment
24 ammendment This Ammendment was passed to over ride another ammendment that stopped the poll tax on voters. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
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Civil rights oeganizations such as, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Student NonViolent Coordinating Comittee (SNCC), organized a voter registration drive. The project was run by the local Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). -
SELMA TO MONTGOMERY MARCH
This march brought awareness to problems African Americans were facing in the south when trying to vote. The capital was the central focus of a march that would let anyone know they would not be stopped from voting.
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Malcom X
Malcom X
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. Malcom X believed after his pilgramidge to Mecca, that whites and blacks could live together, but only if all were Muslim. -
Voting RIghts Act approved
Voting
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) banned racial discrimination in voting practices by the federal government, state, and local governments. Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, that stopped the prevention of African Americans right to vote. -
Black Panthers
black panthers The Black Panthers were formed in California in 1966 and they played a short but important part in the civil rights movement. The Black Panthers thought that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luther King had failed and any promised changes to their lifestyle via the ‘traditional’ civil rights movement, would take too long to be put into place . These people protected others from being harmed in their neighborhoods.. -
King Assassinated
MLK
Martin Luther KIng Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray a fugitive who had escaped from a Missouri prison in April 1967, at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The news of King’s assassination errupted in major outbreaks of racial violence.
