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Plessy vs Ferguson
Made racism legal. Said that everyone could be seperated by race as long as they were equal. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the U.S. that tries to get justice for African Americans. -
Race Riots
A series of violent riots against African American and other people of color -
Malcolm X
An African American man who was sent to jail for burglary. When he got out of jail he became an Islamic Minister. Malcolm X increased racial pride and inspired many African Americans. -
De Jure vs De Facto
De Facto segregation is based off of human nature. De Jure segregation is the segregation declared by the law -
Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka
The all white school wouldn't let Linda Brown go to their school because she was African American and her family took the school to court. the Court sided with the Brown family. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood was an African American lawyer who fought for the Brown family in the Brown v. Board of Educations Court case and won. -
Emmett Till
An African American boy from chicago went to mississippi to visit his cousin. Emmett said bye to a white woman and four days later his body was found in a river brutally murdered and tied to a farm machine. The men convicted for his murder were found not guilty. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
When Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man African Americans boycotted the buses for a year until they changed to rules -
Little Rock School Integration
The School of little Rock refused to integrate Their school after segregation of schools became illegal. The Nine African American students who attended Little Rock had to be escorted by police officers to school and to every class. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African American women who refused to give up her seat to a White man on the bus. She was arrested and because of that the Montgomery bus boycott started. -
The Sit-Ins
African Americans would go into all white restaurants and sit at the lunch counters in protest. In some cases people would beat them up, but most of the time they would just get arrested. -
Freedom rides
Group of African Americans rode the buses in the south in hopes to activated desegregated buses. They receive violent reactions from People -
24th Amendment
An amendment placed to delete poll taxes. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
This March was a series of peaceful protests by African Americans in 1963. The series of protests consist of marching on City Hall, lunch counter sit ins, and boycotting -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Its a law that was passed in 1964 stating that discrimination against race, region, origin and gender is illegal. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This Right removed literacy tests making it easier for African Americans to vote -
March from Selma to Montgomery for Voting Rights
After the murder of a civil rights activist MLK organized a march from Selma to Montgomery. This March influenced President Johnson to establish voting rights. -
Black Panther Party
A political party who fought against police brutality in the ghetto -
March on Washinton
Almost 300,000 Americans Gathered in Washington to hear speeches from Civil Rights Activists. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a reverend and a civil rights activist who was chosen to lead the Montgomery bus boycott. MLK went on from there to lead many more civil rights movements and gave the famous speech called 'I have a Dream' in Washington. Martin gained his ideas for peaceful protests from Ghandi. Thoreau taught civil disobedience which influenced MLK to fight. He also learned to gather large groups of people from Randolph.
