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Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a 1896 U.S Supreme court decision that uphead the constitutionality of racial segregation under the " Separate but equal" doctrine -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored people. An organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality -
The Sit ins
A series of sit ins that began in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 when African Americans students segregation Woolworth's lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service -
Malcolm X
He was a black activist. He developed a philosophy of black superiority and separatism from whites -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Brown v. board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 supreme court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American from Chicago who was brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956 was the first large scale of civil rights program. African Americans refused to ride city buses because of segregated seating -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a seamstress from Montgomery Alabama who helped initiate the Civil Rights Movement by refusing to give up her seat to a white man -
Little Rock School integration
On 1957 event that tested Brown v Board of Education. 9 black students enrolled in a all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas -
Freedoms Rides
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African Americans civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Riders, bus trips through the Americans south in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals -
March on Washington
The march on Washington a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the march on Washington for jobs and freedom -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christen Leadership Conference to being African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama -
24th Amendment
This amendment prohibits taxes and poll taxes as a requirement for voting and federal elections -
Civil Rights act of 1964
A law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces -
De Jure vs. De Facto segregation
racial separation established by practice and custom, not by law -
Voting Rights Act
A law that made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at local level -
Race Riots
On July 27, 1919, an African American teen "drowned" in lake Michigan after violating the Chicago's beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths a week of gang violence followed -
March from Selma to Montgomery
A 1965 civil rights march form Selma to the state capital protesting Alabama's racist policies -
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the mid 1950s until his assassination in 1968, King sought equality and human rights for African Americans -
Black Panther Party
The Black Panthers, also known as the black panther party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African Americans community -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was a U.S Supreme court justice and cibil rights advocate. Marshall earned an important place in American history on the basis of two accomplishments
