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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
Constitutional upholding basically saying "seperate but equal". Meaning it was constutional if blacks and whites were segregated but had equal services
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life span
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Congress of Racial Equality (Core)
Founded in 1942 in april of 1947 they sent 8 white and 8 black males to a supreme court ruling that declared segragated travel unconstitutional.
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Jackie Robinson
The first black baseball player in the MLB. He played 2nd base, signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers and was named rookie of the year in 1947
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Sweatt vs. Painter
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Brown vs. Board of Education
Challenged the constitutional racial segregation in public schools. Consisted of 5 cases under one name Kansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, South Carolina, and Virginia ultimatly ending segregation in public schools.
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montgomery bus boycott
boycott lasting 381 days that only ended because of the desegragation on the mongomery bus system
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"The Southern Manifesto"
A resolution signed by 19 senators and 77 house represenatives codemming the 1954 brown vs board case results.
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Little Rock Central High School
Important to the desegration of public schools because of the nine children know as little rock nine entered the previously all white school.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conferance
Simple descisions in the first meeting made it clear that this would be a nonviolent organization.
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Greensboro sit-in
A sit-in where blacks would sit in white only areas and not move. This was a nonviolent action but effective none the less
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Led by young Reverand Dr.Martian Luther King Jr. and created by Ella Baker.
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"Freedom Rides"
Consisting of 13 riders 6 white and 7 black their plan was to travel the south and help desegragate things but when three men were attacked it was called off
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24th Ammendment
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"Letters from Birmingham jail"
Click this link to see the letter Dr.Martin Luther King wrote while in jail.
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Medger Evers
A civil rights activist from Mississippi he fought in world war 2, came home became a civil rights activist and eventually was shot in the back which was his cause of death.
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March on Washington
200,000+ americans gathered at Washington to demand jobs and rights this is where Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream speech"
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Bonmbing of Birmingham church
Bombed by the Ku Klux Klan and located in one of the most important cites in the state. This bombing killed four little girls.
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Selma to Montgomery march
Three failed attempts to perform the same march. Only after President Johnson supported them was the fourth march successful
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Civil Rights Act passed
Ending all discrimination and segregation this was passed by John F. Kennedy's succsesor Lyndon B. Johnson although it was proposed by John F. Kennedy.
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Mississippi Freedom Summer
A voter registrating project started in Mississipi but was part of a larger effort by CORE and SNCC to expand voting rights in the south.
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Malcom X Assassinated
Unlike Martin Luther King Malcolm was all about self-defense by ny means nescasary. Malcolm Little wasn't known as Malcom X till he got to jail and the X stood for his stolen African identity.
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James Meredith
First black to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962. Also became a republican civil rights activist in the 1960's
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Black Panthers
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King assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr.King was assassinated after going to Tennesee to support a sanations worker strike and giving a speech
