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Plessy vs Ferguson
Racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregation facilities were equal in quality -
Brown vs Board of Ed
The court decided that segregated schools were unconstitutional -
Emmett Till
He was murdered by white men for "flirting" with a woman at a convenience store -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to stand up for a white man that ordered her to after he got on the bus. This resulted in a 381 day bus boycott for all blacks. -
Little Rock Nine
People came together to help the Civil Rights movement -
Freedom Rides
They rode buses into segregated Southern US -
Martin Luther King
He gave his famous "I Have a Dream Speech" -
President JF Kennedy
Assassinated while riding in a motorcade through downtown Dallas -
Malcolm X
A black leader who was a follower of Islam and advised African Americans to vote -
Medgar Evers
Assassinated by a white supremacist
