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Booker T. Washington
founds Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama -
Atlanta Compromise
The title of a speech by Booker T Washington that stated blacks would work and submit to whites in exchange for education and due process of law -
Plessy v. Ferguson
upheld state racial segregation for public facilities; “separate but equal” -
W.E.B. Dubois
helps found NAACP -
Marcus Garvey
founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association -
Medgar Evers
applies to the University of Mississippi law school but is rejected -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
US supreme court decides state laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional -
NAACP
leaders organize Montgomery bus Boycotts -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
protest campaign against the racial segregation policy of the Montgomery, Alabama public transit system -
Southern Manifesto
a document by Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Russel Jr., & Strom Thurmond, which voiced opposition to racial integration -
Little Rock Central High School Integration
9 black students walked, accompanied by the US army, into a previously all-white high school -
Martin Luther King Jr.
meets with Eisenhower and other black leaders to discuss racial problems -
Sit-In at Woolworth's Lunchcounter
4 black colleges students sit down for lunch at a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, and remained seated when asked to leave -
Baker v. Carr
decided that federal courts had the right to review redistricting issues -
Freedom Riders
civil rights activists launch a series of bus trips in the South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals -
Stokely Carmichael
at age 19, Carmichael participates in the freedom rides and becomes the youngest detainee at Parchman State Prison Farm -
James Meredith enrollment at Ole Miss
James Meredith is the first black student to attend the university of Mississippi -
March on Washington
Americans gather in DC for a political rally, which pressures JFK’s administration to initiate a civil rights bill in congress -
Malcolm X
gives his "Ballot or the Bullet" speech -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
outlawed segregation based on race, color, religion, gender, or origin in the US -
March on Selma, Alabama
Led by Martin Luther King Jr, 3,200 people marched from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol (Montgomery) in the name of black voting rights -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
outlawed discriminatory voting practices, such as literacy tests, in many southern states -
Black Panthers
30 group members go to the state capitol with guns and receive media attention
