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Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer Plessy was one-eighth black and seven-eighths white, he was still legally required to sit in the "colored" car of the train. The judge found Plessy guilty of refusing to leave the white car and that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal" -
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Civil Rights Movement
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Brown v. Board of Education
After the Plessy v. Ferguson case, the Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional which was a major victory of the civil rights movement -
Little Rock School Deegregation
Government sent in national guard (to keep blacks out) and then the troops (to keep blacks safe) into Little Rock School -
Emmett Till is Murdered
Emmett Till, who was a black boy, called a white woman ‘baby’, was arrested for it, and then beaten to death by white people; which opened the eyes of people to how bad racism had gotten -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks planned on sitting in the whites section on the bus and refused to get up, then the boycott started -
Sit-ins in Greenboro/Nashville
Boycott/civil disobedience - 4 black men sat at the ‘whites only’ table at lunch and refused to get up or out. -
March on Birmingham
Most segregated area, sent children marching to stop segregation, government sent police dogs to attack and fire fighters to set their hoses on them -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. & 250,000 others, 75,000 which were white, marched from Lincoln Memorial to Washington Memorial where he gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women. -
Voting Rights Act
Act prohibits states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or practice or procedure ... to deny the right of any citizen of the US to vote on account of race or color. -
Martin Luther King Assassinated
American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement, who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. He was killed in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
