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Thoreau was an American philosopher. He believed in peace and nature. He was sent to jail after refusing to pay poll taxes. He refused as a protest.
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"Separate but equal" Plessy V. Ferguson was a court case on segregation and making things separate but equal.
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Thurgood Marshall was an American Lawyer, serving as Association Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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A civil rights organization to ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights to all people and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
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Racial Riots were riots that broke out due to segregation and discrimination.
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Asa Philip Randolph was a Civil Rights leader. In 1925 he organized the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, which was the first African American labor union.
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Gandhi was an Indian activist, just like MLK. He led India's independence movement using his speaking ability and non-violent protests.
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This was a case where the court decided to join black and white schools, and end school segregation.
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This was racial segregation that happened more by fact than legal requirement.
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MLK was an activist who made many changes during the Civil Rights time. He gave the famous "I had a dream" speech, and lead many protests, campaigns, and movements. MLK was assassinated in 1968.
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Emmett Till was a young boy that was lynched, after being accused of whistling at a white woman in a grocery store.
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Rosa Parks was a black woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger, it then started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest against racial segregation on public transportation, it is when African Americans walked to work everyday, and refused to take the bus.
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The Little Rock School Integration was when 9 students were being prevented from integrating the high school.
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A sit-in was when an area would be taken over by protesters trying to promote something.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights campaigners who rode buses into the segregated south, in order to change racial segregation.
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The march on Birmingham was a movement led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to desegregation.
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This is where MLK gave his "I had a dream" speech. They were marching for jobs and freedom. This was a very effective march.
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The 24th Amendment took of the taxes for voting, so anyone could vote, rich or poor.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended public segregation in public places, and banned employment discrimination. It is one of the best achievements of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Malcolm X was a human rights activist. Malcolm had once spent 6 years in jail for stealing. He was the leader of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam
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This is when MLK lead over 600 people on a march from Selma to Montgomery as a protest against segregation and racial discrimination.
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This was a law signed prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.
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A political party for a self defense, made for African Americans.
