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Plessy vs Ferguson
[Website Link](www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson)
Plessy tried to sit in an all-white railroad car and refused to sit in the all-black railroad resulting in Plessy being arrested.
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Jackie Robinson
J.R Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919.jackie excelled at sports,Becoming one of the first people to get four varsity letters at UCLA in !9 42.In 1947 he signed with the Brooklyn Dodger breakin the infamous color barrier. -
Medger Evers
A Civil rights activist. Mainly organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. -
James Meredith
Born James Howard Meredith was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi was the first black person to intergrate the university of Mississippi in 1966 he planned a solo 220 mile march to memphis to stop fear in/of memphis. -
C.O.R.E
COREFounded in 1942, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American . In the early 1960s, CORE, working with other civil rights groups, launched a series of initiatives: the Freedom Rides, aimed at desegregating public facilities, the Freedom Summer voter registration project and the historic 1963 March on Washington. CORE initially embraced a pacifist, non-violent approach to fighting racial segregation -
Sweatt v. Painter
a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the case of Brown v. Board four years later.The case involved a black man, Herman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas, whose president was Theophilus painter didnt admit Mr.Sweatt because Texas law didnt admit "Negro" students -
Brown Vs Board
the Brown Vs Board of education court case the board of education of topeka Kansas was sued by oliver brown the father of Linda Brown who had to walk far away from her house to the nearest black school when their was an all white school just seven blocks down from her house -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In Montgomery, Alabama, a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man which lead to the boycott which then was a major victory in the Civil Rights Movement. -
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Montgomery bus Boycott
mbb The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in whichblack people refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to geive upher seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. Which launcehd this large scale boycott -
the southern Manifesto
Drafted by 101 politicians as a counter petition to the brown vs Board of education rulinhttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.html -
SCLS
sclcthe Southern Christian Leadership Conference was established january 10 1957 to now. Which is a very prestigious black organization havin Dr. King as one of its founder. which is now headed by Charles Steele Jr. -
little rock central high
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Greensboro sit-in
Was a non-violent protest by young African-American students at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter. It sparked a sit-in movement across many colleges in that area. -
SNCC
Was formed to give younger african americans a voice in the civil rights movement. Had a huge role in the Freedom Rides which tried to desegregate buses and was involved in the marches by MLK and SCLC. -
SNCC
AKA the Student Non violence Coordinating Commite founded in 1960 it was one of the key organizations of the civil rights movement -
Freedom Rides
A group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists who did a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. -
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Freedom Rides
On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists started the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in america interstate bus terminals. The Freedom Riders, who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a U.S. civil rights group, -
Twenty-fourth Amendment
Abolished the poll tax (a poll tax was a tax of anywhere from one to a few dollars that had to be paid annually by each voter in order to be able to cast a vote) for all federal elections. -
Medger Evers
MEborn July 2, 1925 in decatur mississippi he was Martin Luther King before martin luther king he was shot in the back while he was walking up his drivewayin 1963. He faught for the intergration of schools throught Mississippi. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter written by MLK while in solitary confinement at a cell in Birmingham, Alabama. A letter responding to the nine critisims from the local religious leaders. -
March of Washington
More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Bombing of Birmingham Church
bombingA bomb was exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. 4 young girls were killed and many other injured. -
Civil Rights Act Passed
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, and was then signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Civil rights organizations like CORE and SNCC organized a voter registration drive aimed at increasing voter registration in Mississippi. -
Malcolm X Assassinated
Malcolm X was assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. -
Selma to Montgomery march
MLK led thousands of nonviolent protesters to Montgomery from Selma and it greatly helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the South. -
Voting Rights Act Approved
Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson and allowed African Americans to excercise their right to vote. -
Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party or BPP was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist party active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with its only international chapter operating in Algeria from 1969 until 1972https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/ -
King Assasinated
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Early April.
