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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
In the case the United States Supreme Court made decesions that blacks were entitled to equal facilities, but the facilities would be seperate from the white area.Also refered to seperate but equal. -
Thurgood Marshall
won the court case; Brown vs. Board of Education which ended segregation in public schools. First African American Supreme Court Justice. Became chief of counsol for NAACP -
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) A US civil rights organization set up in 1909 to oppose racial segregation and discrimination by nonviolent means.
later, 1940 Thurgood Marshall was appointed Cheif Counsol for the NAACP. -
Frannie Lou Hammer
American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the SNCC -
Brown V. Board of Education
A case in which the United States Supreme Court established state laws declaring that separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. -
Mongomery Bus Boycotts
A woman, Rosa Parks, was riding the bus, and wanted to sit in the end of the white sitting area. When she was asked to move by the bus driver she refused. The bus driver then called police to come in and they arrested her. Afterwards, African Americans would not ride the busses in Montgomery as this news about the arrest spread rapidly. This is what brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. into to Civil Rights. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
SCLCwas a black civil rights organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. and others. The main purpose of SCLS was to end all types of segregation. In the program it sent representatives to protest or fight about segregated places or things. It funded and sent representatives to guide or lead the various operations it supported, including protests, literacy education for blacks, and sometimes anti-poverty programs. -
Little Rock 9
A group of African American students went to LIttle Rock High
School. At first, the students weren't allowed to become enrolled in the school because it was an all white school.Eisenhower then found out about his, and had the balck children privatly escorted into school. There was much tension and harrasment, and the governer didn't like the segregated schools. He then closed the school to avoid segregation. -
SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
A civil-rights organization made up of studancts during the 1960's. The goal was to achieve political and economic equality for black throughtout local groups. Focused on the Non-Violent approach to trying to fix racial equality. -
Sit Ins
Sit ins were passive resistance to racial discrimination against black customers in certain eating/shopping, etc establishments.black protesters would go into segregated public places and sit "where they were not supposed to" and were often violently escorted or kicked out of the area becaust of racial discrimaniton -
Freedom Riders
A group of people riding in a public bus protesting for freedom.In the second week the riders were severely beaten by white people who opposed the idea.CORE Leaders decided that letting violence end the trip would send the wrong signal to the country. They reinforced the pair of remaining riders with volunteers to escourt them off the bus. -
James Meredith
The first African-American student of the University of Mississippi.He then attended Jackson State College for two years. Meredith applied the laws of integration and became the first black student at the University of Mississippi, a very important moment in the civil rights movement which sparked riots that left two people dead. -
Freedom Summer
A campaign in the United States launched to attempt to register the most African American voters as they could in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. This was also part of a larger effort by civil right activist to amplify voting in the South. -
Malcom X
15 Feb 1965
Malcolm X, a very extreme activist for Black Power is assassinated by three men(all Islamic).He converted to islam and wanted to practice and share his believes for black power He believed violence was the answer and had a very different take on the civil rights situation that Martin Luther King Jr. -
Voting Right Act of 1965
national legislation in the United States that stated it outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. The SNCC had also been a part of trying to support non-dicriminated voting. -
Black Panthers
Thought that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luther King had failed and any promised changes to their lifestyle via the 'traditional' civil rights movement, would take too long to be implemented or simply not introduced. Was involved and believed in black power. -
Martin luther King Jr.
Was arrested because he was trying to defend the blacks, he was going on strike in order to defend the people. Also, King helped organize a massive march on Washington.The assembled masses marched down the Washington Mall from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial site. Also, had his famous" I Have a Dream" speech; which influenced many blacks and is a important and remembered speech. This event lead to the Civil Right Act of 1964, outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, -
MLK Jr. Assassination
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. found, a gaping wound covered a large portion of his jaw and neck. A great man who had spent thirteen years of his life dedicating himself to nonviolent protest had been felled by a sniper's bullet. This was significant because after his death, the civil right movement had progress and would countine to progress because of him
