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plessy vs. ferguson 1893, This 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law.
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200,000 people gathered at Lincoln memorial
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The Race Riots were when thousands of people protested in Detroit and after 3 days troops came in to control them
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plaintiffs alleged that segregation was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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the Montgomery Bus Boycott was when Rosa Parks a black women sat in a white persons stop on a bus and refused to move
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The March from Selma to Montgomery was when Martin Luther King lead a group of blacks to Montgmery
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the sit ins were when a group of black kids went and sat in all white
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it was a march agenst segregation
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is when the outlawed discrimination based on race, sex, and color of you skin.
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The Voting Act of 1965 was to let black men vote
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black protesters took white buses to get around
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Little Rock Integration was when 4 black students inrolled in a all white school
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the 24th Amendment was the right to pay to vote
