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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Seperate but equal -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The NAACP was formed in response to the lynchings of African Americans early in the 1900s helping defend them and played a key role to the support of the civil rights movement -
Thurgood Marshall
Marshall was an associate justice of the supreme court that defended the Brown vs Board of education of Topeka. Winning the court case agais=nst the school board. -
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
Thurgood Marshall won the court case of Linda Brown an 8 year old girl who was trying to go to an all white school that was closer instead of one that than five times the distance away. As a result the segregation of schooling became illegal. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till reportedly said "Bye baby" to a white teenage girl and later on men came to his door and took him away and killed him just because of the two words he said and the men were not found guilty proving the prejudice of America. -
Rosa Parks
Ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott that played a big part in peaceful protest -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Boycott of the blacks in the back of the bus system, took place on the first day of Rosa Parks trial. -
Little Rock School Integration
A group of nine students were to be integrated into the all white Little Rock Central High School as part of their blossom plan, but the governor openly didn't want them so they were rejected. Bu the federal judge demanded that they be admitted. -
The Sit-Ins
African Americans would sit at white only lunch counters and refuse to get up, protesting against the idea of separate but equal. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom rides protested against the separate seating of races of interstate highway buses, the black and white men rode together trying to provoke a violent response and get the Kennedy Administrations attention, -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Birmingham on the 3rd and labeled it as the most segregated city in America so after days of prepping on the 12th of April during there march they were arrested. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was the activist of civil rights and outspoken about the Black Muslim faith. Unlike Martin Luther King JR. he encouraged people to defend themselves against white violence. -
March on Washington
President Kennedy made a bill that guaranteed equal access of all public accommodations to all people and to insure that it was passed the SCLC had Americans march on Washington -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./Gandhi/Thoreau/Randolph
These men were all civil rights activists who encouraged people to fight for themselves but peacefully, they encouraged peaceful protest unlike Malcolm X. -
24th Amendment
This amendment prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials. A poll tax is fee when voting. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The act prohibited the discrimination of a person based on race, religion, national origin, and gender. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for Voting Rights
A large group of African Americans were peacefully marching from Selma to Montgomery to protest the brutal murder of a black man, they were attacked and terribly beat. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Aimed to overcome the barriers at the state and local levels that prevented to African Americans their right to vote under the 15th Amendment. -
De Jure vs. De Facto Segregation
De Facto segregation is segregation the exists between practice and custom. De Jure segregation is segregation by law, repealing it requires a changing of attitude while the other is a removal of law. -
Black Panther Party
Military self defense for minorities in small communities formed early in the 1900s as support for African Americans and minorities -
Race Riots
During this time there were a lot of fights and problems breaking out in cities all over America between civil rights activist and conservatives. In 1967 in Detroit a brutal race riot broke out leaving many dead.
