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A court case about Plessey (a black man) who had boarded a train for 'whites only'. The court ruled against Plessey even though he had Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to support his case.
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De Jure Segregation is defined as forced racial seperation by law.
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De Facto Segregation by definition means "in practice but not necessarily ordained by law", so segregation was practiced, but not supported by law
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Stokely Carmichael was the first leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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In the case of Brown vs. Board of Education it was decided that segregated schools were unequal in quality and that it was unhealthy to seperate students by color
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The black population was the majority of people that rode the bus, and feeling that they were being treated unfairly by the discrimination the buses supported they stopped using the bus. *Rosa Parks
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Martin Luther King Jr. participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott as well as many other civil rights movements. He has the famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He taught blacks to act without violence
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SCLC is a Civil Rights organisation that supported Blacks obtaining their rights.
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9 black students enroll into Little Rock Central High School, and face constant discrimination from peers. Eventually protection for the 9 students is provided by US army members.
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Freedom Riders were Civil Rights Activists who rode buses in the South to make sure that decision made during Boynton vs. Virgina was supported
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freedom Summer was started to try and register blacks in Mississippi (at that time there were not many black voters).
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Malcolm X, like Martin Luther King Jr., was a black speaker who argued for black rights. He however, said that violence was a proper way of action towards whites.
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3 marches that were in the name of black rights (in particular, voting rights). Police beat and gased members of the march to turn them back.
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The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 made it so voting could no longer discriminate those of color.
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Black Panthers was an African American organisation designed to promote 'black power' and self defence for blacks
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A commision designed to investigate the causes of the 1967 race revolts.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in a hotel the day after delivering his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" address at Mason Temple.
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It added to previous Civil Rights Acts by prohibiting the discrimation of people by their race, religion or national origin when dealing with the selling, renting and financing of housing.
*President Lyndon Johnson