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Civil Disobedience
purposely breaking a law that we know is a wrong law.
Example: the sit in's, and Henry David Thoreau purposely didn't pay a bill, and was sent to jail. This was an act of this. -
Lynching
Lynching was used heavily when racial segregation was becoming powerful, especially towards African Americans. Lynching was a Mob of people who were all of racial segregation, and unfortunately they would kill people toward the public, But the way they did that was by hanging them in front of the public and would just leave them like that. over three thousand African Americans were killed due to this. Lynching ended towards the last 1886's -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Was a a supreme court decision which stated that had segregation to give equal rights to both blacks and whites -
Brown V. Board Of Education
Was the way of making interracial schools -
Rosa Parks
Then it was demanded that white sat in the front and blacks in the back, all seats were filled for the blacks, so Rosa sat in the white restricted area, the driver told her to move, and she chose not to, After that she was arrested for no apparent reason. This began to push the Boycott movement. She gained respect and ears from many because she was lightskin that was close to the white race -
George Wallace
George Wallace would not allow two black students to walk into Alabama University, causing Wallace to basically wanting to reinforce pro-segregation, He was the 4th comer of Alabama, and knew he was capable of so much power, yet his request was rejected. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. advanced the civil rights fairly rapidly for stating the truth using his words through God. He Began pushing the Boycott more towards the public, He organized a protest for Birmingham Alabama, he then organized the march in Washington which therefore he gave his grand " I had a dream " speech. ( 1955- 1964) -
Thurgood Marshall
Was the first African American Judge. This gave an extra step to the movement, to have more than one race in the supreme court, and this way it was a more fair situation for both blacks and whites. he was apart of the Brown V. Board of Education
