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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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. -
March on Washinton
200,000 people gathered at Lincoln memorial -
Race Riots
The Race Riots were when thousands of people protested in Detroit and after 3 days troops came in to control them -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
plaintiffs alleged that segregation was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Montgomery Bus Bocott
the Montgomery Bus Boycott was when Rosa Parks a black women sat in a white persons stop on a bus and refused to move -
March for Selma to Montgomery for voting
The March from Selma to Montgomery was when Martin Luther King lead a group of blacks to Montgmery -
The Sit-Ins
the sit ins were when a group of black kids went and sat in all white
dinners -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
it was a march agenst segregation -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is when the outlawed discrimination based on race, sex, and color of you skin. -
Voting Rights Act Of 1965
The Voting Act of 1965 was to let black men vote -
Freedom Rides
black protesters took white buses to get around -
Little rock School integration
Little Rock Integration was when 4 black students inrolled in a all white school -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
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24th Amendment
the 24th Amendment was the right to pay to vote
