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Plessy vs Ferguson
US supreme court case that held up the rights of states to pass any law allowing rascal segregation in public -
NAACP
an association / organization for colored people -
Race riots
riots broke out during the 18th century between the whites and blacks -
Brown vs board of education
United States supreme court case that held the race based segregation of children into separate but equal schools -
De jure vs De Facto segregation
De jure that excited because of local laws that mandated the segregation and De Facto excited because of the voluntary association and neighborhoods -
Rosa Parks
civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat to a white male then Rosa Parks was arrested -
Emmett Till
African american teenager who was murdered during the civil rights movement -
Montgomery bus boycott
political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation -
Little Rock Interrogation
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School -
The sit-ins
form of direct action that involves one more people people occupying a space for a protest -
Freedom Riders
when seven blacks and six whites left Washington D.Con 2 buses bound for the Deep South. -
March on Birmingham Alabama
The Birmingham campaign or Birmingham movement was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. -
Marin Luther King Jr.
A Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was an interracial march by 250,000 blacks and whites on August 28 1963 in Washington D.C. -
Malcolm X
outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. -
24th amendment
constitution prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil rights of 1964
a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting Rights of 1965
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War -
March from Selma to Montgomery
became a landmark in the American civil rights movement and directly led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Black Panther Party
The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. -
Thurgood Marshall
American lawyer serving as associate justice of supreme court of the United States
