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plessy v Ferguson
this 1896 U.S. Supreme court case upheld the consitutionally of segregation under the seprate but Equal's doctrine. -
medger evers
a ctivist who organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations/boycotts of companies that practied discrimination. -
james meredith
is a civil rights movement figure, writer, political adviser and air force veteran -
twenty fourth amendment
Property qualifications extend back to colonial days, but the poll tax itself as a qualification was instituted in eleven States of the South following the end of Reconstruction, although at the time of the ratification of this Amendment only five States still retained it. -
Congress of Racial Equaily (CORE)
became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the american civil rights movment -
Sweatt v. painter
in 1946 herman sweatt a black man applied to the school of law at the university of Texas which like schools at the time refused to admit blacks -
Jackie Robinson
made history in 1947 when he broke the baseball color barrier to play for the brooklyn dodgers -
Brown v Board of education
when the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history. -
montgomery bus boycott
martain luther king jr. organized this which began a chain reaction of similer boycott throughout the south -
the southern manifesto
was a document written in feb.and in march 1956, in the u.s in opposition to racial integraton of public places. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (sclc)
is an african amerian civil right organization.which is closey associated with its first president, Dr.martin luther king Jr. -
little rock central high school
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Greensboro sit-in
were a series of nonviolent protests in greenboro north carolina,in 1960, which led to the woolworth department stor chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the southern u.s -
Freedom rides
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern u.s.in 1961 the following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the u.s. supreme court decision lrene morgan v. common wealth of virginia -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
was one of the most important organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s -
civil rights passed
which ended segregation in public planes and baned employment discrimination on the basis of race,color,religion sex of national origin,is conidered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movment -
letter from birmingham jail
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march of washington
was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in u.s history and demanded civil economic rights for african americans -
Bombing of birmingham church
a bomb exploded before sunday morning services -
missippi freedom summer
comprised of black missippians and more than 1,000out of state,predomindtey were whites volunterd -
malcolm x associates
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selma to montgomery march
In early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. That March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. -
voting rights act approved
aimed to overcome legal barries at the state and local leves tha prevented african americans from exercising their to vote under the 15th amendment (1870) to the constitution of the u.s. the act significantly widened the franchise and is considered among the most-feaching pieces of civil rights legislation in u.s history. -
black panther
the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with its only international chapter operating in Algeria from 1969 until 1972.