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Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy attempted to sit in all white railroad car. After refusing to sit in the black railway carriage car, Plessy was arrested. Those who were not using their facilites not designated for their race was against the law. -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Their mission was to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. -
Sit-Ins
Protesters usually seat themselves at a restaurants and sat there until they were moved by force. -
Brown v. Board of Education
United States Supreme Court declared that seperate but equal for school was unconstitutaional. Brown's daughter had to walk 6 blocks to her bus stop. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
When Rosa Parks got kicked out of the bus, the African Americans got together and protested against riding the bus. Thus the government had to allowed the disegregation of the bus. -
Rosa Parks
African American who refused to move to the colored section of the bus when the white person ordered her to move. -
The Little Rock Nine
Group of African American students who attended in Little Rock Central High School. They were prevented to enroll in the school by the governor of Arkansas. They eventually attended the school because of president Eisenhower -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
African American civil rights organizations with Martin Luther King Jr. Started because of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Led by Ella Baker. Had many supporters from north to raise fund to support SNCC's work. -
Freedom Riders
They were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
James Meredith
he was the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. -
Medgar Evers
Was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil RIghts movement activist. He became a national icon for the African Americans. Used non violence to promote. -
March on Washington
Happened in Washington D.C. Where Martin Luther King Jr. made "i have a dream" speech. hundreds of thousands have gathers to hear his speech. -
Civil RIghts Act of 1964
Piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. -
Freedom Summer
Was a campaign in the United States to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Fannie Lou Hamer
Was an American voting rights activist. Also part of freedom summer and SNCC. Later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. -
Malcolm X
Was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. Black supremacy. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans -
Black Panthers
Was African American revolutionary socialist organization. Founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. -
Thurgood Marshall
Marshall was the First African American who became Associate Justice of the United States' Supreme Court -
Martin Luther King JR Assassination
The day when Martin Luther King Jr. got assassinated. He was shot and killed by James Earl Ray.
