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1955 BCE
De jure vs De Facto segregation
Racial segregation, especially in public schools, that happens “by fact” rather than by legal requirement. -
plessy vs ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. -
Race Riots
The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, and thirty-eight people died and over five hundred were injured. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Brown v. board was a landmark United States Supreme Court case, and made segregated school illegal. -
Little Rock School Integration
decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Kansas. the U.S. Supreme Court declared state laws to separate public schools for students of different races. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation In Alabama. Rosa park was arrested for not getting to the back of the bus. Emmett till was kill for saying ''by baby'' to a white lady. -
The Sit-Ins
sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest -
Freedom Rides
Were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. -
march on Birmingham
Birmingham movement was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. To bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
March of Washington
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The rise of the young civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in the mid-1950s. Randolph proposed another mass march on Washington in 1957. -
24th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress. -
civil right act of 1964
Civil Rights Act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. -
Selma to Montgonmery
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment.
