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Plessy v. Ferguson
The the seperate btu equal provision of public accommodations by state governments was found to be constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. -
Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of United States Supreme Court. He was the courts 96th and first African-American justice. -
Orville Faubus
Orville Faubus was an american politician who served as democratic governor in Arkansas. He is best known for his position in against the desegregation in Little Rock High School. American chose for him to be one of their "ten most admired men" -
Rosa Parks
Known as "the first lady of the civil rights" and "the mother freedom rights." On December 1, 1955, Rosa Park refused to obey the rules of a bus driver to give up her seat for a white person in the colored section of the bus. Parks was arrested that same day for not giving up her seat and this is why she is known for "the first lady of civil rights." -
Martin Luther King Jr
American baptist minister and leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in not using nonviolent civil disobedience on his christian beliefs in the civil rights. He is also known as one of the best motivational speakers. -
Brown v. Board of Education
A landmark United States Supreme Court in which the court decided state laws establishing seperate public schools for white and black students to be uncontitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A bus in Montgomery, Alabama that african americans refused to get on so they could protest segregated seating. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person in the black people section on the Montgomery Bus. -
Lester Madox
Lestor Madox was the governor and american politician of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. He came into prominence when he refused to serve his black customers in his restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia.
