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14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment says that all people have equal rights. This amendment was adopted in 1868. Although the U.S. had not used it in terms of only rights for white people. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
African american Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a law in Louisiana. The court ruled that a state law between whites and blacks did not conflict with the 13th and 14th amendments. This reasoning was not overturned until 1954. -
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement and the Pan-African movement. He had attended Howard University. He is best known as being the prime minister of the Black Panthers. -
Brown V. Board Of Education
This unanimous court decision given by the supreme court, ended federal tolerance of racial segregation. they had decided that in their doing was violating the 14th amendment. In which guarantees the right of equal protection. It had also overturned the 1896 Plessy V. Ferguson case. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist. She is mainly remembered for refusing to let a white person sit in her seat. She was then arrested and then led people to start protesting on their own. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was a protest against the Montgomery bus laws. A woman named Rosa Parks refused to let a white man sit in her seat. Then causing the boycott to begin. -
Orval Faubus
Orval Faubus was an american politician who served as the 36th governor of Arkansas. He served from 1955 to 1967. He is famous for his act to stand against desegregation of the Little Rock School District. -
Cesar Chavez
Cesar was a labor leader and a civil rights activist. He cofounded the National Farm Workers Association. Which is now known as the United Farm Workers (UFW). He was best known for being a Latino American civil rights activist. -
Betty Friedan
Betty was an American writer, and a women's rights activist. She was the president and cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW). This organization was an aiming point to help the equality of women toward men. -
George Wallace
George was the 45th Governor of Alabama. He is known for being pro-segregation and a supporter of the Jim Crow laws. He is know for standing in front of the University of Alabama refusing to let black students into the building. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther was a spokesperson for the civil rights movement. He is greatly known for a number of his speeches. One of the most famous is the "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Hector P. Garcia
Hector had served in World War II as a surgeon and an American physician. He was also a supporter of the hispanic civil rights movement. He had received the Presidential Medal of Honor in 1984. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was a U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil rights advocate. He was against segregation and was a supporter of the NAACP. He was also an associate justice of the Supreme Court. -
Lester Maddox
He served as the 75th Governor of Georgia. He is best known for refusing blacks to eat in his restaurant. He did this as being in defiance of the civil rights act.