Civil Right Movements

  • Booker T. Washington

    Vocational education and eco self-reliance; founded Tuskegee Institute.
  • W.E.B. Du Bois

    Advocated for higher education for Blacks
    co founder of NAACP
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Separate but equal
  • Executive Order 8802

    FDR bans discrimination in military
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • MLK Montgomery Bus Boycott

    after that jail and wrote letter from Birmingham Jail
  • MLK I have a dream

  • Malcolm X

    Leader in the Nation of Islam
    advocated for black pride, economic independence, and self-determination
    assassinated
  • Black Panthers