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plessy V Freguson
A case that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions such as schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurants. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States -
Brown v Board
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Crisis in Little Rock
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School -
freedom Rlders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 -
freedom summer
Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the Congress on Racial Equality and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to expand black voting in the South -
civil rights act
A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
1967 Race RIots
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot, was a violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan. It began on a Saturday night in the early morning hours of July 23, 1967 -
Civil Rights act of
defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin”. Title VIII of this Act is commonly referred to as the Fair Housing
