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Plessy v. Ferguson
The case that said segregation was legal as long as public places had things for each race. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People helped colored people fight for equal rights. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
The Court ruled that state laws of segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
De Jure vs De Facto Segregation
Practice of racial segregation. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Instead of riding the segregated busses, African Americans decided to boycott them and walk everywhere until the busses went out of business which ford them to unsegregated them. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a boy from South Side Chicago, who went to visit his uncle in Mississippi and was brutally murdered after "flirting" with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African American who wouldn't give up her seat for a white man, which started the Bus Boycott. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./ Gandhi/Thoreau/Randolph
They all wanted equal rights, but to achieve this goal they all tried with no violence. -
Little Rock School Integration
There were 9 students who started the integration in schools. -
Freedom Rides
Civil rights activists who rode busses into the segregated states to challenge the Supreme Court who wasn't enforcing desegregation. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment was to abolish poll taxes. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
This march was done to bring attention to desegregate public places in Alabama. -
March on Washington
This march was held in Washington for the equal rights of African American jobs and freedom. -
The Sit-Ins
Nonviolent protests in southern states. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm was a human rights activist who helped push for African American rights. -
Race Riots
These Race Riots were led by white people against African Americans. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This prohibited discrimination on race, religion, gender, or orientation. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
This march fought for the right to carry out their protest for African American voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act prohibited prejudice voting practices in southern states. -
Black Panther Party
They were African American people protecting their people from police brutality in their own neighborhoods. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood was a council of the NAACP who was brought in to help win the case of "Brown vs Board of Education" to stop segregation in schools.
