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Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodations (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
De jure segregation
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Brown v. Board of Education
was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities -
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civil rights movement from 1896-1968
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Malcolm X
an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. didn't vibe with the "non violence" protesting -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.[ -
montgomery bus boycott
The movement was ignited from episodes of many black people being treated poorly in favor of white people on the busses and they eventually got sick of taking the abuse and decided to boycott the busses, the busses lost majority of their costomers and eventually a law was passed that they could not be denied rights to sit wherever on the busses that they wanted -
S.C.L.C.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.[1] -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation -
Black panthers
The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African-American revolutionary organization established to promote Black Power, and by extension self-defense for blacks. It was active in the United States from the mid-1960s into the 1970s. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international fame through their deep involvement in the Black Power movement and in US politics of the 1960s and 70s. The Black Power movement is considered to be one of the mo -
freedom riders
Civil Rights activists who rode on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court -
de facto segregation
De facto is a Latin expression that means "by [the] fact". In law, it is meant to mean "in practice but not necessarily ordained by law" or "in practice or actuality, but without being officially established" contrasts de jure -
Freedom Summer
(also known as the Mississippi Summer Project) a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States -
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "Snick") and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, Carmichael later became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements. -
Kerner Commission
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, was an 11-member commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide recommendations for the future. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
was shot at the loraine hotel on his balcony Violence and controversy followed. In outrage of the murder, many blacks took to the streets across the country in a massive wave of riots. The FBI investigated the crime, but many believed them partially of fully responsible for the assassination. A man was arrested, but many people, including some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s own family, believe he was innocent. -
civil rights act of 1968
includes the fair housing act and prohibits the following:
1. Refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion or national origin. People with disabilities and families with children were added to the list of protected classes by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988.- Discrimination against a person in the terms, conditions or privilege of the sale or rental of a dwelling.
- Advertising the sale or rental of a dwelling indicating preference of discrim
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Selma March
"we shall overcome"
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama
Photograph courtesy of the Alabama Historical Commission Alabama Police confront the Selma Marchers
Federal Bureau of Investigation Photograph The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks