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Plessy vs Ferqusson
Homer A. Plessy argued that the separate car act in Louisana resricted his thirteeth and fourteenth amendment rights . This case was stared when Plessy bought a first class ticket in white section of the East Louisana Railroad. The Supreme Court deemed this separate but equal. -
Brown vs the board of education
8 year old Linda Brown lived 21 blocks away from her all black school, but she only live 4 blocks away from the white school. The warren court declared the segragation of schools unconstitutional by the fourteenth amendment. This was also the stgart of the litte rock nine. this later helped James Merridith get in the university of Mississippi -
Montgomerty bus boycott
when Rosa Parks, a secratary for the NAACP, refused to gave up her seat so a white man did not have to sit next to her, the NAACP started this boycott. This later led to led to the freedom rider movement -
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
A group of Afircan American Students refused to leave Woolworth lunch counter where they were denied service. This was the start of sit-ins. They were responsible for orgainzing the freedom summer and a key member was Fannie Lou Hamer -
Assaination of Medgar Evers
Civil Rights activist and member of the NAACP was assasinated by white guman at night -
I had a DREAM
Followed by the walk on washington on the steps of the Lincoln memorial, Martin Luther King Jr gave his iconic speech that filled thousands of civil rights activists with hope for tomorrow. He was apart of the SCLC. He was a leader of this establishment. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Was passed as "equal protection under the law" with the exception of the president. This was a cause of the voting act of 1965 -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcom x is assassinated by rival black muslims while giving a speech. Malcom was a religous leader and a human rights activist. -
Black Panthers
An american hating group of people formed a political party in 1966 naming themselve black panthers. They dissolved in 1988 -
the first black supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall was appointed by President Lydon b. Johnson -
Assassination of MLK
MLK was killed while entering his hotelroomby James Earl Ray
