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Plessy V. Ferguson
A Supreme Court case that said racial segregation is constitutional -
Mendez v. Westminster
A lawsuit that said children of Mexican descendants could go to school with white children -
Supreme Court case: Brown v. Board of Education
Agreeing that segregation is schools is unconstitutional -
Emmit Till murdered
Fourteen year old Emmit Till is kidnapped, shot ,beaten, and killed fro whistling at a white women -
NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
A women from the NAACP refuses to give up her seat for a white man. She starts a Bus Boycott -
The Little Rock Nine
Nine black students are blocked from entering Little Rock High School -
Greensboro Sit-Ins
A nonviolent protest from four African-Americans sitting in whites seats -
The Freedom Rides
The "Freedom Riders" rode the interstate buses to the segregated South -
24th Amendment abolishes Poll Tax
This is when the 24th Amendment abolishes Slavery
