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Plessy V. Ferguson
A court case ruled against ending segregation for African Americans but instead created a new idea of separate but equal. -
NAACP
to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination -
Gandhi
leader of the Indian independence movement in India. Used nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence -
Randolph
African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement and He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters first African American work union -
Malcom X
Human rights activist one of the greatest behind MLK -
Brown V. Board of education
Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
Emmett Till
African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks
started buss boycott arrested for not giving seat up for a white person -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating -
Dr. Martin Luther Kings Jr.
Civil rights leader the most known around the world was killed after he gain social equality for African Americans -
Thoreau
Known for Civil-disobedience many civil rights movement leaders followed his teachings -
Little Rock School Integration
Nine African American students enrolled in a white High School. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis. -
The Sit-Ins
is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest. -
Race Riots
The country was on fire riots in every state in the 60's -
Freedom Rides
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United -
24th Amendment
prohibits Congress and the states from having the right to vote in federal elections. -
March on Washington
Was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans -
The March on Birmingham
Black from all over peacefully protest segregation and integration -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
New law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools -
Selma to Montgomery Marches
protesters march from Selma to Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Meant to overcome legal barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote -
De jure Vs. De Facto
Racial segregation established by law and by practice -
Black Panther party
revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization -
Thurgood Mashall
Was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
