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Plessy v. Ferguson
-Constitutionary of state laws that makes racial segragation in public places to be "seperate but equal" -
Brown v. Board of Education
-Supreme Court declared state laws establishing seperate black/white school unconstitutional -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Protest by African American citizens in Montgomery, Alabama, against Segregation policies on the city's public buses -
Emmit Till
African-American boy who was shot and killed in Mississippi at the age of 14 after being seen flirting with a white woman. -
Little Rock Nine
Group of Nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Cetral High School; The school was racially segragated though and the Governor of Arkansas would not let them in. -
Civil Rights Act
Voting rights bill; the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 -
James Meredith
First African American to attend the University of Mississippi; shot by a sniper after beginning a lone civil rights march through the South, "March Against Fear,". -
24th Amendment
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Assass, of JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (35th President)
He was assassinated at 12:30pm in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas -
Civil Rights Act
Civil rights act of the world ending racial discrimination in the spheres of life. -
Selma to Montgomery March
"Bloody Sunday"; marches and protests held in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement. -
Civil Rights Act/ Voting Act
A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people. -
Assass. of Malcolm X
- Former Nation of Islam leader; Shot and killed by "Black Muslims" as he was about to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity
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Assass. of MLK
-Civil Rights Leader; Prompted major outbreaks of racial violence. -
Assass. of RFK
RObert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy; U.S Senator and brother of JFK; After he won the California and South Dakotah primary elections he was killed.
