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Plessy v Perguson
A doctrine that enforced separate but equal -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by W. E. B. -
Brown V Board of Education
supreme court unanimously struck down segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection. Thurgood Marshall was the lawyer who argued Brown spent years getting rid of Jim Crow laws . he was also appointed to the supreme court he was the first African American -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks and an NAACP officer took a seat in the front row of the "colored" section of a Montgomery bus.MLK learned from these leaders Non-violence: Henry David Thoreau he took the concept of civil disobedience the refusal to obey an unjust law. From labor organizer A. Philip Randolph he learned to organize massive demonstrations form Gandhi the leader who helped India throw off British rule , he learned to resist oppression without violence -
Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14 for flirting with a white woman only fore days earlier. -
Little Rock School Integration
National Guard to tun away the " Little Rock Nine " nine African American students who had volunteered to integrate little Rock's Central High School. A federal judge ordered Faubus to let the students into school. -
The Sit- in
African-American students from North Carolina's a agricultural and technical college staged a sit- in at a whites- only counter at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro. -
Freedom Rides
two- bus trip that tested the supreme court decision banning segregated setting on bus routs and segregated facilities in bus terminals. -
March on Birmingham , Alabama
More than 1,000 African American children marched and protested many were arrested and swept of there feet with fire hoses or they were clubbed. -
March on Washington
more than 250,000 including about 75,000 whites converged on Washington where Martin Luther King jr. made his famous speech " i have a dream" speech -
24th amendment
it was the end of poll taxes -
Civil rights act of 1964
Prohibited discrimination because of race, religion , national origin , and gender. it gave all citizens the right to enter libraries , parks , washrooms, restaurants , and other public accommodations . -
Marched from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
50 mile protest mach from Selma to Montgomery . protesters were attacked with whips and clubs. -
Voting Rights Acts of 1965
the act eliminated the so- called literacy test that had disqualified many voters. -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
de facto segregation exists by practice and custom
de jure segregation is segregation by law -
Black Panther
Founded in 1966 in Oakland , California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale -
Race Riots
in 1967 riots and violent clashes took place in more than 100 cities
Malcolm X urged his followers to take control of their communities
