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Civil Disobedience, The Voting Rights, The Little Rock Nine.
Resistance to Civil Government is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Jim Crow, Black Codes, and The civil rights act of 1964.
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Democrat-controlled Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination. -
Plessy v. Ferguson, and Brown v. Board of Education.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in 1896.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Nonviolent Protest, and Desegregation.
Nonviolent resistance is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation.
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races. -
Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, and March on Washington.
The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
