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Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE) Founded
Civil Rights- -
Jackie Robinson Hired to the Brooklyn Dodgers
Color line: The line created by law, custom, and economic differences that separated whites from nonwhites. -
Executive Order 9981
Segregation- A way of separating white people from black people -
Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
Thurgood Marshall: -
Montgomery Bus Boycott (start)
Boycott: Rosa Parks: The person who's actions started the Montgomery bus Boycott -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Disenfranchise- -
Integration of Central High School
Little Rock Nine- Nine black students integrate into the Central High school, an all white school. -
First lunch counter sit-in
Jim Crow Laws:
Sit-ins: -
Freedom Rides
Civil Disobedience-
SNCC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee -
Birmingham Campaign: Letter from Birmingham Jail
SCLC- Southern Christian Leadership Conference -
March on Washington
NAACP- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Plessy v. Ferguson -
Watts Riot
Kerner Commission- National advisory commission that concluded Watts riots were the cause of white racism.
Ghettos- Parts of a city where people that belonged to an ethnic group live. -
Black Panther Party Founded
Black Power- group of activists that were not focused on nonviolent protesting
SNCC- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Blacks, and the nation of Islam were influenced by the leaders Malcom X, Huey Newton, and Bobby Seale - Were okay with violence - -
Civli Rights Act of 1968
Discrimination- -
Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education
desegregation: Ending the separation of people by race.
-School and the black students who are being bussed to the school
-bussing is a way for schools to desegregate -
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Affirmative action- -
Advocates For Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam-
Malcom X-
