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Plessy VS Ferguson
legalized racism -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. -
Race Riots
Riots over raceism -
Brown VS Board of Direction
ended legal segregation of schools -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". -
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Blcks walked to work instead of riding busses -
Little Rock School Integration
9 Blck students were gaurded at a white school -
Sit-Ins
electrifying movment of negro students -
Freedom Rides
cancle race segregation on public busses -
De jure VS De Fact segregation
denied blacks from attending political events -
March on Washington
Black protestors walked on washington for freedom and jobs -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
Blck protestors march for thier rights but get met with fire hoses -
Civil Rights Act
Banned segregation in public places -
24th Amendment
Allowed anybody to vote -
Voting Rights Act
Stopped racial discrimination on voting -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
African american voting rights -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. -
BPP
The Black Panther Party (BPP) is a black extremist organization founded in Oakland, California in 1966. It advocated the use of violence and guerilla tactics to overthrow the U.S. government. -
Thurgood Marshal
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
