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was accused of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence.He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history
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The United States supreme court made it so blacks and whites could go to the same schools
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the Court overturned the 1896 precedent in Plessy v. Ferguson the case which established the "separate but equal" It was replaced with a legal apparatus whereby separate school systems could be challenged by obtaining a federal court order directing school districts to desegregate
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they were a group of African-American students that had to go to a black school and then transfered into a all white school and got harassed and followed everywhere and troops wouldnt even allow them in the school
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he was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after he flirted with a white woman and he was beatened and then shot to death.
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She refuse to take the bus drivers order and move her seat to make room for the white people.
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Was the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott
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They road public transportation in the South to challenge local laws that enforced segregation and the violence they showed got them arrested.
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A big protest to make blacks just as equal as whites
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it was forms of discrimination against blacks and women including racial segregation It ended blacks and women from being unequal and racial segregation in schools
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The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and in U.S. politics of the 1960s and 70s
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He was assassinated in Tennessee He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986
