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Plessy VS Ferguson
-in May 18th 1896 the supreme court ruled that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the fourteenth amendment . -
NAACP -
National Association for the Advancement of colored People -
Little Rock school integration
in 1957,Arkansas had become the first southern state to admit african americans to state universities without being required by court order. -
brown vs. board of education of topeka
1954 case in which the supreme court ruled “separate but equal” education for black and white students was unconstitutional -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
- May 1954, Robinson wrote a letter to the mayor of montgomery, Alabama asking that bus drivers no longer be allowed to force riders in the colored section to yield their seats to whites . The mayor refused. So blacks did not attend the bus route.
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Rosa Parks
- African American activist who fought for equal rights for african americans activist who fought for equal rights for african american She was of the more famous activist because of one event when she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white men. She was arrested and put in jail. the made national news on how the bus system treated african americans.
- African American activist who fought for equal rights for african americans activist who fought for equal rights for african american She was of the more famous activist because of one event when she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white men. She was arrested and put in jail. the made national news on how the bus system treated african americans.
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malcom x
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist -May 19, 1925 -
Martin L King
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement January 15, 1960 -
The Sit in
On February 1, 1960, a new tactic was added to the peaceful activists' strategy. Four African American college students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter at the local woolworths store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for coffee. When service was refused, the students sat patiently. Despite threats and intimidation, the students sat quietly and waited to be served. -
Freedom Ride
- A group of northern idealists active in the civil rights movement. The Freedom Riders, who included both blacks and whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960s in order to challenge racial segregation.
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March on Washington
- March 28th 1963, 200,00 plus people gathered in Washington DC for jobs and freedom. This meet was organized by civil rights and religious leaders. This event was to shed light on social and political change in the african american culture.
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MARCH ON BIRMINGHAM , ALABAMA
Birmingham became a focus for the civil rights movement. Whether it was through the activities of Bull Connor or the bombed church which killed four school girls, many Americans would have known about Birmingham by 1963. -
24th Amendment
- Us constitution prohibits both congress and the states from conditioning the rights to vote in federal election on payments of a poll tax or any other type of taxes.
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Civil Rights act of 1964
A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment. -
March from selma to montgomery
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference . -
Voting rights act of 1965
. A law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people -
BLACK PANTHERS PARTY
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Race Riots
- (19671968) white mobs attacking blacks The riots are unusual in that race, ethnic, religious riots normally was one group
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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.
