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Plessy vs. Ferguson
trial that allowed segregation as long as treated 'equally" -
NAACP
Oldest Civil rights organization, with more than half a million members -
Malcolm X
spoke out against racism as a civil rights activist -
Brown vs. Board of education
Segragation became ilegal because ruled unconstitutional -
Thurgood Marshall
lawyer known for Brown vs. Board victory -
De Jure vs De Facto
De jure is segregation by law and De Facto is segregation of neighborhood and assosciation -
Emmet Till
14 year old boy lynched after calling white woman baby -
Rosa Parks
refused to give up seat on bus for white person, called "mother of freedom movement" -
Martin Luther King Jr.
led Montgomery bus boycott 1955 -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans boycotting public buses when Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her seat -
Little Rock School Integration
Nine black students segregated from a school -
Sit-Ins
groups of black kids sitting down in white-only seats -
Freedom Rides
a civil rights group traveling in buses battling segregation by trying to use "white-only" things -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
From May 2-5,thousands of kids marched demanding their rights -
March on Washington
about 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington D.C. for political rally, Martin Luther king Jr. gave "i have a dream" speech -
24th Amendment
prohibited poll tax in elections -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
discrimination in any way became illegal -
Race Riots
followed by shooting of 15 year old by off duty white officer, roughly 8000 rioted on streets of Harlem -
March from Selma-Montgomery
Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands on a 54 mile march from Selma to Montgomery -
Voting Rights of 1965
aimed to overcome barriers that prevented blacks exercising their rights -
Black panther
revolutionary black nationalist/ socialist organization
