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The Ku Klux Klan
Was established as a direct response to the souths defeat in the civil war. The Klan targeted black freedmanand their allies, it sought to restore white superacy by threats and violence. Blacks lived in fear of groups like the klan who exerted reign of terror. -
First Civil Rights Act
Was the first United States federal law to define US citizens were equally protected by the law. -
Second Civil Rights Act
It protected all americans regardless of race, in their access to public accommodations and facilities. It was not enforced, and the surpreme courtdeclared it unconstitutional. -
Plessey v Ferguson
seated himself in a white compartment, was challenged by the conductor, and was arrested and charged with violating the state law. -
Jackie Robinson
Their response to Jackie was "seperate but equal" status and embraced integration, he was treated different because of his color. -
Committee on Civil Rights
Harry Truman was the president, The committee was instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country, and propose measures to strenghten and protect them. after submitting its report it disbanden in December. -
Brown v. Board Of Education Topeka Kansas
Declared the "seperate educational faciities are inherently unequal, " The Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state- sponsored segregation, and provided a spark to the civil rights movement, -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, and african american woman refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. The U.S. supreme court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system, Martin Luther King Jr (a young pastor), emerged as a prominent national leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Governer Faubus
National guardsman sourrounded Central High, In a televised speech governer Faubus explained that he had called the guardsman because he had heard that white suprematist from all over the state were descending on Little Rock. He declared central off-limits to blacks and horace mann, the black high school off-limits to whites. -
Elizabeth Eckford
Was a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine african american students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -
Samuel O'Quinn
Local black residents stated that O’Quinn was murdered because he had joined the NAACP and was preparing to engage in civil rights activity in Wilkinson. -
Clyde Kennard
He wrote a seven page letter to admissions director Aubrey K. Lucas in which he demolished all of the traditional arguments used to defend segregation. -
James Meredith
He became the first black student to enroll at the University of Ms, before he tried to enroll at Ole Miss and found out the entrance was blocked. -
Arrest of Martin Luther KIng in Alabama
He was arrested following a nonviolent protest demonstrating against segregation. King was demonstrating with out a permit and was placed in Birmingham jail for 11 days. -
Anne Moody
she and several other activists sat down at the Woolworth lunch counter reserved for white customers. In a scene captured in a widely circulated news photograph, Ms. Moody and the others were doused in condiments by hostile onlookers. -
A. Phillip Randolf
Was the most important civil rights leader to emerge from the labor movement. Throughout his career he constantly kept the interests of black workers at theforefront of the racial agenda. In 1941, he proposed a march on Washington, to protest racial discrimination in war industries, an end to segregation. -
Voting Rights Act
outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states, after the civil war, including literacy tests as a thing to voting. -
Black Power Movement At Its Park
the Black Power movement marked a turning point in black-white relations in the United States and also in how blacks saw themselves. The movement was hailed by some as a positive and proactive force aimed at helping blacks achieve full equality with whites. -
Black Panthers
Panthers practiced militant self defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. -
Assassination Of Martin Luther King
After giving his speech the following day, king was standing on his balcony, where he and associates were standing when a sniper bullet struck him in the neck.
