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Plessy v. Ferguson
163 US 537 was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws -
Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African American justice -
naacp
a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by W. E. B. -
Rosa Parks
was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". -
Malcolm x
African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. -
dr. martin Luther king Jr.
American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs -
Emmett till
African American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14 -
brown v. board of ed of topeka
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, -
Montgomery bus boycott
because the treatment of the rose parks made people start walking and not taking the bus and making the bus company lose money -
little rock
9 black kids from Central High dinned in and the gov stopped it -
the sit ins
black students sat at the lunch counters for whites not to sit -
freedom rides
were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States -
march on Birmingham Alabama
MLK marched and was arrested in Birmingham. May second 1,000 African american children marched in Birmingham and set dogs, fire holes, and clubs on them -
march on Washington
250,000 people march on Washington to demand civil rights bill be passed. MLK gave his "I have a dream" speech -
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24th amendment
stopped poll taxes in order to vote federal elections -
civil rights act of 1964
it stopped discrimination in public place, housing, and jobs -
race riots
clashes between white authority and black civilians started in many major cities in the U.S -
march from selma to montgomery for voting rights
MLK march from Selma to Montgomery protesting the death of demonstrator. violence broke out showing police brutality -
voting rights act of 1965
literacy test stopped and federal gov monitored voter registration -
black panther party
revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966 -
de jure vs. de facto segregation
de jure is segregation by law vs.segregation by custom