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Plessy v. Ferguson
"Seperate but equal" -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
A fight to end segregation -
Gandhi
A leader who helped India throw off British rule -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X went to jail when he was twenty for burglary. While he was in jail he studied Elijah Muhammad. After he was released from prison he became an Islamic minister -
Randolph
Randolph is a labor leader and social activist -
The Sit-Ins
The Congress of Racial Equality set up the first sit-ins, which is when a African American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served -
Thoreau
Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience and an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
An eight-year old girl, Linda Brown, charged the board of education of Topeka for violating her rights -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall won the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which made segregation legal in schools -
Emmett Till
A fourteen-year-old African American boy who flirted with a white woman -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat for a white man -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a seamstress and an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) officer. She refused to move from her seat for a white man -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King gave a speech to around 10,100 people, which had a big impact to everyone who heard it. Also, he was an American Baptist minister and a leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement -
Little Rock School Integration
The governor ordered the National Guard to turn away the "Little Rock Nine"-nine African American students who volunteered to integrate Little Rock's Central High School -
Freedom Rides
A two-bus trip that tested the Supreme Court decisions banning segregated seating on interstate bus routes and segregated facilities in bus turminals -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for jobs and freedom -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
A focus on the civil rights movement -
24th Amendment
Prohibits poll tax in elections for federal officials -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. This gave citizens the right to enter parks, restaurants, and other public accommodations -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed discrimination in voting, allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time -
Race Riots
An encounter between white police and African-American teenagers, which ended with the death of a 15-year-old. This sparked a race riot. Thirty-four people were killed and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
Protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery, where they met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. This ended with 2,000 African Americans arrested and Jimmy Lee Jackson shot and killed -
Black Panther
A political party to fight police brutality in the ghetto -
De Jure vs. De Facto segregation
De Jure is established by law. De Facto is established by tradition
