White- Civil Rights Movement

By tre styles

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    state laws established of racial segregation under doctrine separate but equal The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1

  • national association for the advancement of colored people

    national association for the advancement of colored people
    organization in the United States, formed in 1909 goal is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education
    in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional segregation violation of 14th amendment

  • the montgomery bus boycott

    the montgomery bus boycott
    Led by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King jr. started when Rosa Parks decided not to give up her seat just so a white man coud sit down martin luther king was born in 1968 MLK was a young pastor that was called upon to lead the civil rights movement campaign protesting racial segregation

  • the little rock nine

    the little rock nine
    gorup of colored students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
    In Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme Court ruled the law of segregated schools was unconstitutional

  • Student Non-violent Coordinationg Comittee

    Student Non-violent Coordinationg Comittee
    one of the organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
    strong leader named Stokley Carmichael
    in later years, focused on black power

  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X
    started as rebellious teen
    while in jail discovered nation of islam
    to a trip to Mecca and realized desegregation wasnt so bad

  • civil rights act of 1964

    civil rights act of 1964
    established all racial injustices unjust
    no more segration
    can not discriminate because of race, sex, or origin

  • thurgood marshall

    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 Marshall died of heart failure at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, at 2:58 pm on January 24, 1993 at the age of 84

  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    also led by MLK as well as many other civil rughts activists
    drove to southern states protesting racism
    wanted violence so government could not ignore the issue