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Plessy V. Ferguson
separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites. -
NAACP
The NAACP organized many of the Protest the black race held -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a public Montgomery bus -
Chicago Race Riots
African American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after being stoned by white teens. police refused to arrest the only witness. Resulting in riots being sparked globally. -
Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka
father of 8 yr old Linda brown charged in the board of education of Topeka, Kansas after his daughter was denied entrance to an all white school 4 blocks from her home. -
Thurgood Marshall
He was counsel to the NAACP he utilized the judiciary to champion equality for African Americans. In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools. -
Emmett Till
14 year old boy brutally murdered after flirting with white teen. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks sat in front of bus "whites only" and refused to move to back of bus and resulted in her being arrested. -
North Carolina-Sit-Ins
African American students at North Carolina sat in a whites only section and Proceeded to get beat by the whites and also had food poured on them. -
Freedom Rides
A group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activist launched Freedom rides to protest segregation in the american south. -
March on Washington
more than 200,000 Americans gathered in D.C. for a political rally for jobs and freedom. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He was an NAACP activist and gave the " I Have a Dream" speech which became the impromptu of Washington D.C. -
Civil Rights Acts of 1964
They ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of races, color,sex. -
24th Amendment
The United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Malcolm X
On February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where he was about to deliver a speech. Three gunmen rushed the stage and shot him 15 times at point blank range -
Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights
nearly 8000 people took a 5 day walk to Montgomery for voting rights -
Black Panther Party
its core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality in Oakland, California. -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
racial injustice and segregation. from the bus boycott of the late 1950s
