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Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme court ruled the separation of the races , separate but equal. -
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Emmett Till
Started the whole Civil rights movement -
Naacp
Founders: Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Archibald Grimké, etc. -
De jure v.s. De Facto segregation
De jure means of right, by right, according to law. De Facto means in reality. Together it means in law and in practice when describing political or legal situations. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
A landmark United States Supreme Court case declared there cant be black and white schools.. -
Thurgood Marshall
He won the Brown v.s. Board of Education case, which ended racial segregation in public schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, African American woman, refused to give up her seat to the white man, and was arrested and fined. -
Rosa Parks
Made segregation on public buses unconstitutional -
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Is the most important voice of the American civil rights movement for equal rights for all people. -
Little Rock School Integration
Citizens of little rock elected two men who publicly backed desegregation. Though the Governor Orval Faubus showed support of school., segregation. he ordered the Nation Guard to take the "Little RockNine" out odf schools. -
Gandhi
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The Sit-Ins
Four black students from North Caroline A&T college sat down at a Woolworth lunch in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. Also, included Civil rights activist. -
Freedom Rides
Civil Rights activists rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states years later they challenged the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v.s. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v.s. Virginia -
Malcolm X
Freedom rider -
Henry David Thoreau
Participated in civil disobedience -
24th amendment
Abolished the poll tax for all federal elections. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
Organizing SCLC ; Led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, Fred Shuttlesworth, the campaign of nonviolent direct action multiple confrontations between young blacks and white civil authorities. -
March on Washington
For Jobs and Freedom; largest political rallies for human rights in U.S. history it demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
A. Phillip Randolph
Led the March on Washington Movement -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed discrimination on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. it ended unequal voting administration and segregation in schools. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
Martin Luther King Jr. SCLC went to Selma and wanted to register black voters in the south.They resisted violence by state and local authorities on their march. Voting rights act was passed later that year. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
President Lyndon Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers and African American were prevented to vote from the 15th amendment. -
Black Panther Party
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Race Riots of Washinton
Assassination Martin Luther King Jr. , then a wave of civil disorder in at least 110 U.S. cities.
