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Plessy vs Ferguson
civil disobedience and legal action. Cause-Plessy refused to move on the bus. Effect. 7-1 ruling set standard of "separate but equal" for the next 58 years. Segregation was made legal as long as each facility was equal. Truth was separate was rarely equal. -
Formation of the NAACP
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. -
Race Riots
The race riots were started by anyone who wanted change. It started by blacks being segregated. It was very unfair. People would march with signs, or they would boycott places or people. Some of these riots turned very violent, -
The Congress of Racial Equality is Formed.
The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American civil rights movement. -
Desegregation of the military
President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services -
Jim Crow Laws
Southern laws that forced segregation of the races. -
Literacy Tests
A test to keep blacks from voting -
Brown v. Board of Education
personal statement and legal action. Racial segregation amongst schools and children is not okay. Schools were desegregated. -
Malcolm X begins leading the Nation of Islam
As Malcolm X led a mass rally in Harlem on February 21, 1965, rival Black Muslims gunned him down. Although his life was ended, the ideas he preached lived on in the Black Power Movement. -
Segregation
Separating people according to some standard; usually race -
The Murder of Emmitt Till
Emmitt Till was murdered because of he "cat-called" a women. At night, two men took him out of his house and drove him to a spot and beat him to death. After this occurred more people started to take action. -
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
civil disobedience and economic pressure. People boycotted the buses because of the restrictions. Buses became desegregated -
Little Rock Nine
personal statement and legal action. The schools allowed blacks back in, but then they were banned again -
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed in 1957 just after the Montgomery Bus Boycotthad ended. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) main aim was to advance the cause ofcivil rights in America but in a non-violent manner. Was started by Martin Luther KIng Jr. -
Sit-ins
civil disobediance. A form of protest in which the participants occupy a building or a site in the rope of forcing their opponents to five into their demands. -
SNCC
It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at an April 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University. It means 'Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement -
Freedom Riders
personal statement and legal action. People of different races who rode buses throughout the south in 1961 and attempted to force the integration of segregated facillities in public bus stations. -
James Meredith
personal statement and legal action. He was the first African American to go to the University of Mississippi -
Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
March on Washington
group segregation & legal action. 200,000 protesters attempt to pressure congress to pass JFK's proposed Civil Rights
This when MLK's speach was. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The cause of this was so many protests, so the government needed to make a civil rights act. It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. Many high in chare people participated.
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24th 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 -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Our preident gave the right of African Americans to vote. Even though it went past legal barriers, ut was what we had to do to stop conflict. This led to wanting an equal right to vote. -
Marches from Selma
group demonstration. MLK organizes voter registration march from Selma to Montgomery. Gov. Wallance tries to stop with tear gas and clubs. Pressured voting rights act of 1965 -
Martin Luther King's assassination.
Martin Luther King was shot in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He was shot by a white male names James Earl Ray. The cause was Ray just being an angry man. The effect was more people trying to get civil rights -
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Boston Busing
The desegregation of Boston public schools was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. This was caused by desegregation busing, and the effect was that the school's busing got desegregated. -
Rodney King Trial
This was a trial for Rodney King who was beaten during a violent riot. This went to trial to get change against the violence that occur during riots.
