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Plessy v. Ferguson
Separation of races in public accommodations was legal, separate but equal. -
national association for the advancement of colored people
African-American civil rights organization -
Gandhi
Gandhi was an anti-war activist and the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. His persistent method of civil disobedience influenced leaders leaders of civil rights movements, including MLK. -
Randolph
Randolph was a labor leader and social activist. His abilities as an organizer had grown to such lengths that he was what motivated the ending of racial discrimination in government defense factories. -
Thoreau
Thoreau was an author, philosopher, and activist who's wrote "Civil Disobedience." This book presented his ideas about the individual's responsibilities in relation to the government. It affected both Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -
Malcom X
American Muslim minister and human rights activist. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Father of young girl charged the board of education with violating daughters rights by denying admission to an all white elementary school. -
De Jure vs. De Facto Segregation
De Jure was segregation by law and De Facto was segregation by practice. -
Emmett Till
African American teenage lynched for flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech inspired African Americans to take matters into their own hands and decide to refuse to ride the buses in Montgomery. -
Little Rock School Integration
Nine African American students admitted to Little Rock's Central High School. An abusive crowd waited for students to come to school. Eisenhower than placed Arkansas National Guard under federal control. -
The Sit-Ins
African Americans protesting segregation by sitting at all white counters -
Freedom Rides
African Americans and white civil rights activists protested segregation in interstate bus terminals through the South. -
Thurgood Marshall
First African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. He also destroyed the legal foundation Jim Crow segregation. -
March on Washington
A political rally in Washington D.C. for jobs and freedom. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader African American Civil Rights Movement. He is most popular for his "I have a dream" speech calling for an end to racism. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
A direct action campaign aimed to attack the city's segregation system. -
24th Amendment
Prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Aimed to overcome barriers that prevented African Americans their voting rights. -
Race Riots
An encounter between white police and African American teenagers, which ended with the death of a 15 year old. This sparked a race. Thirty four people were killed and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
Protestors marching from Selma to the capital of Montgomery in effort to register black voters in the south. They were met with violent resistance from state and local authorities but eventually were able to achieve their goal. -
Black Panther Party
armed citizens' patrols monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality in Oakland, California.
