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a law that upheld constitutional laws of segregation
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the NAACP was created to ensure rights for all people and to eliminate racial discrimination
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a large scale of African american migration to the north
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the first African american lawyer of justice
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Malcolm x went to jail when he was 20 while in jail he studied the teachings of Elijah Muhammad the head of the nation of Islam. after he got out of prison in 1952 he became an Islamic minister he gained followers as he preached Elijah Muhammad's views.
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de facto segregation is the practice of racial discrimination de jure is the racial segregation enforced by law
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a supreme court case in which the justice ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional
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an american civil rights activist and one of the biggest spokesmen in history
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civil rights activist who is known for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott
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a protest campaign against racial segregation on buses in Montgomery Alabama
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this was when schools in little rock started to have segregation
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students from across the Nation came together to form SNCC
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civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961
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a movement organized in 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Alabama
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The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
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it banned poll tax which was a tax of anywhere from one to a few dollars that had to be paid annually by each voter in order to be able to cast a vote.
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labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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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
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this law outlawed the discriminatory voting practices in many southern states after the civil war
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Huey newton and bobby seal created a political party called the black panther party to fight police brutality in the ghetto.
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Emmett till was a 14 year old boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1995 after being accused of offending a white woman in a grocery store
