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In 1892 a black male didn't want to sit in the Jim crow car.Plessy was breaking Louisiana law.plessy constitution rights were rejected when he tried to argue his rights were violated.
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Thurgood was a U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil rights advocate. Marshall earned an important place in American history by becoming a legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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MLK was Baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968.
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Brown vs Board of education, allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, black seamstress Rosa Parks helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States.
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The boycott took place after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Which led to protest against segregated seating.
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Governor Orval Faubus called out National Guard to prevent a group of African-American students from entering the all-white Central High School