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Plessy V Ferguson
The state of Louisiana had a law where blacks and whites had to ride separate railway cars. In 1892 a African American male refused to sit in a Jim Crow car. He was brought to before Judge John H who upheld the State law. Supreme court thought that it wold conflict with the 13th and 14th amendment. It was not overturned until Brown v. Board of Education Topeka in 1954.By a 7-1 vote the court implies a legal distinction between the two races did not conflict with the 13th Amendment. -
Congress of Racial Equality
The Congress of Racial Equality was founded in 1942. It was founded by an interracial group of students in Chicago. In 1942, core began protests against segregation in public accommodations by organizing sit ins. The core experienced tension between local control and national leadership. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first African american male to play major league Baseball as a member of the Brooklyn Dogers. He won the national rookie of the year award his first year.In 1949 Robinson won the MVP award. Jackie faced very many obstacles but he did not let anything stand in his way as he was one of the greatest MLB players. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1962. -
Sweatt v Painter
In 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, a African American male applied at the University of Texas Law School. His application was automatically declined because of his race.The Supreme Court reversed and remanded and declaring a state or territorial law, regulation, or constitutional provision as unconstitutional. -
Brown V Board of education
This case was the consolidation of four cases arising in separate states relating to the segregation of public schools on the basis of race. -
Montgomery bus Boycott
Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks a African american Woman,refused to yield her seat to a white male on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. Approximately 40,000 African- American bus riders the majority of the city's black bus riders. Montgomery's buses were integrated on December 21, 1956. -
The southern Manifesto
It marked a moment of southern defiance against the Supreme Court's 1954 landmark Brown v the Board of Education. Which determined that separates school facilities for black and white school children were inherently unequal. The Manifesto attacked Brown as an abuse of judicial power that trespassed,upon states rights. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The very beginnings of the SCLC can be traded back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. SCLC is a now nation wide organization made up of chapters and affiliates with programs that affect the lives of all Americans. -
Little Rock Central High School
Little Rock Central High School is recognized for the role it played in the desegregation of public schools in the United States. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. -
Greensboro sit-in
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro. North Carolina. In 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. They were influenced by the nonviolent protest techniques practiced by Mohandas Gandhi -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. Was a large part in the Freedom Rides aimed at desegregating buses and in the marches organized by King and SCLC. The fires and disorders that followed in the summer of 1967 led to Browns arrest for incitement to riot. -
Freedom rides
On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African american and white civil rights activist launched the freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the american south to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The group encountered tremendous violence from white protesters along the route. John Lewis was one of the original group of the 13 freedom riders.
