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Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Separate but equal -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States -
Race Riots
Many blacks in Detroit forced into 60 miles, while businesses burned -
Gandhi
Leader of India independence movement in British-ruled India -
De jure vs. De facto segregation
de fraco was segregation that exist by practice and custom. De jure was segregation by law -
Brown v. Board of education of topeka
Father of eight year old Linda brown had charged the board of education of Topeka, Kansas, with violating Linda's rights to attend school. -
Thurgood Marshall
lawyer for Brown vs. Board-1st black supreme court justice -
Emmett Till
Black teenager- murdered in Miss. For talking to a white girl -
little Rock school integration
National Guard protected African Americans while they were in Central High school. -
The sit -ins
Four black students from north Carolina A&T sat illegally at in a restaurant. -
March on Washington
200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C for a political rally known as the March on Washington for and Freedom -
Dr. Martin Luther King
American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in African-American civil rights movement. -
24th amendment
abolished tax to vote -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Made it easier for african Americans to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy test and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
March to register black voters based on custom-in schools and Public places. -
Malcom x
Head of Nation of Islam -
Black Panther party
The panthers practiced militant self defense communities against U.S government -
Rosa Parks
arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man -
March on Birmingham , Alabama
A movement to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa parks refused to give her seat up for a white man -
Freedom rides
one of the civil rights activists who rode buses through the south in early 1960s to challenge segregation.
