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Ella Baker
-She died December 13, 1986
-She was an African-American civil rights and human rights activists in the 1930s
-She was associated with the NAACP
-She tried to end racism with all the groups she was in -
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Rosa Parks
-Setup a school for black to learn about racial rights
-She got put into jail because she didnt give her seat up in the bus to a white guy -
Martin Luther King Jr.
-1968 Martin Luther got shot in the face
-Pastor of a Baptist church in Montgomery
-1963 he wrote a Letter from Birmingham Jail inspired the growing civil rights movement
-He wanted to end segregation everywhere in America -
Malcolm X
-He died February 21, 1965
-He was and advocate for African American Rights
-He was sent to jail because he was preaching racism
-He became leader of Nation of Islam -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.
-Segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
-overturns the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson -
Little Rock Nine
A group of african Americans went to an all white school in Little Rock, Arkansa to proteest and end segregation between black and white schools -
NAACP
-Rosa parks was arrested for helping this group out and for the bus inncodent
-Tried to get fair employment practices
-The NAACP won the case for the Brown v.s. the Board of Education
-In 1965 The NAACP passed the Voting Rights Act -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
-An African-American civil rights organization
-They tried to end segregation in the schools
-Had a major protest in Washinton D.C. to push the new civil rights legislation
-They had alot of non-violent protest to state their opinion -
North Carolina restaurant sit-in
African Americans went into an all white restaurant and just sat there in silence and had a non-violent protest to end segragation in all the restaurants -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
-SNCC played a major role in sit-ins and freedom rides
-Inspired by the Greenboros sit-ins -
Segregation Rights
In the summer and spring African-American would take bus trips to the place where they werent allowed to go, to test out the new non-segragation laws -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation