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Plessy v. Ferguson
In 1980, Homer Plessy who was a partial African American boarded a white only car to Covington, Louisiana. According to the Seperate Car Act he was not allowed to ride in a whites only car. The United States Supreme Court found that this was unconstitutional and made Seperate but Equal. -
NAACP
It was the National Association for teh Advancementof Colored People. They were an organazation to help the colored people of America. -
Brown v. Board of Education
In 1951 Oliver Brown who was a parent argued that schools should not use the seperate but equal. They took the case to the supreme Court and it was ruled the seperate but equall was not constitiutional for schools. Thurgood Marshall contributed to this by arguing that the school segregation was against the 14th amendment. He was a leading factor to the succes of the case. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott/ Rosa Parks
The Montgomery bus boycott began when Rosa Parks would not let a whit person sit in her seat. Rosa Parks was in the back like she was suppost to be but they made her move because there were too many whites on the bus. No African Americans rode the bus in Montgomery. They would car pool and actually ended up starting the first taxi service. They did not ride the bus until congress made it so everyone could ride the bus and sit where they want to. -
SCLC/ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The SCLC is the Sothern Christian Leadership Conference. Dr. Martin Luther King was the president. This was a confrence for the African Americans to be led by King Jr. and demand their freedom. -
The Little Rock Nine
A group of African American students inrolled in a Little Rock school and the governer would not let them in. Then the NAACP had to escort them into the school. These were the first nine African American students in a "white only" school. -
Sit-ins
It is a non violent protest with one or more people. The African American had a sit in with the whites because they were non violently protesting. -
SNCC
This is the student non-violent coordinating committee. Was a committee for students to non-violently protest the whites. This was a major role in the sit-ins and freedom rides. -
Freedom Riders
They were civil rights protesters that rode buses into the southern states. They did it to protest non-violently. There goal was for the whites to violently attack and the congress find out. -
March on Washington
Was a huge march to get jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I have a Dream speech here. About 80 percent of the marchers were black. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This outlawed major forms of discrimigation against racial, religious minoraties and women. At first it was not strongly inforced. After time it became very strongly inforced.
