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Plessy v. Ferguson
It said that Separate but equal was okay. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This established separate public schools, for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14. -
Rosa Parks
Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. -
Montgomery bus boycott
When Rosa Parks did not give up her seat to a white man that had asked, and was arrested. This lead to many active racial opinions, which caused riots. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine black students who were enrolled into an all white school, which the United States Military was there escort or protect them from danger or riots. -
The Sit-ins
Sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. -
March on Birmingham Alabama
A movement with the purpose to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. for a political rally -
24th Amendement
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Selma to Montgomery march
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and later also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Prevented African Americans to use their right to vote under the 15th amendment to the constitution of the United States. -
De Facto vs. De Jure Segregation
De jure segregation is separation enforced by law, while de facto segregation occurs when widespread individual preferences, sometimes backed up with private pressure, lead to separation. -
Riots in America
Violent public disorders that turned into a civil disturbance across the nation. -
Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Gandhi Randolph
Won the Nobel Prize, Martin Luther king used the beliefs of Gandhi Randolph and Thoreau. He based his ideas on their teachings, he learned refusal of an unjust law.
