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Civil Rights Movement
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
court establish "separate but equal" doctrine in which segregation is legal as long as blacks facilities were equivalent to those of whites. -
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- organization that fights through the courts to end segregation -
Birth of a Nation
movie on how civil wars destroys a nation -
Buchanan vs. Warley
a case in which blacks are not allowed to buy a home were it is large population of whites living in that area. -
Scottboros Boys Trial
two white hobo women get nine black hobo adolescents prosecuted by saying that they were assulted by them. -
Jesse Owens
A black man who won four gold medals in running at the Olympics Games in Berlin -
CORE Founded
Congress of Racial Equality -- organization dedicated to civil rights reform through nonviolent action -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson breaks down color barriers and becomes the first African-American to play in the major baseball league. -
Shelley vs. Kraemer
A case arguing wheather restrictive covenants were legal -
Executive Order 9981
The intergration in arm forces order issued by President Harry S. Truman -
Racial Zoning
Supreme Court declares racial zoning unconstitutional -
Brown vs. Board of Education
decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students and denying black children equal opportunities -
Emmet Till
Boy killed for whistling at a white women. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
African-American woman arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
boycott that resulted in the integration of Mongomery, Alabama's bus system -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students integrate Central High School in Little Rock -
Lunch Counter Sit-ins
civil rights protest where protesters sit at a lunch counter and refuse to move, and make buisness lose customers. -
Freedom Rides
protest in which both white and blacks rode interstate buses together to test whether southern states were complying to Supreme Court ruling -
James Meredith
First student to go to the University of Mississippi -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
letter where MLK defends impatience of people in the civil rights movement -
Children's March
protesters turn to children to continue the protest, but either way the children were still attacked -
Medger Ever
Civil rights leader was shot right outside his house. -
March on Washington
protest on more than 250,000 people demonstrated in the nations capital for "jobs and freedom" and the passage ofcivil rights legislation. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
KKK bomed a Baptist Church in Birmingham killing four girls -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
an act that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin -
Amendment 24
U.S. citizens rights to to vote will not be denied for not having the ability to pay a poll tax or any other tax -
Voting Rights Act
act outlawing tactics used to deny African Americans the right to vote -
Edmund Pettus Bridge
on "Bloody Sunday" civil rights marchers in Selma, when on Edmund Pettus Bridge marcher got attacked by lawmen. -
Loving vs. Virginia
the case in which restriction of inter racial marriage is declared unconstitutional -
Martin Luther King jr. Shot
Civil Rights activist shot and killed