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Supreme court ruled in Plessy V. Ferguson that segregation was legal, as long was each race was given separate but equal facilities
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A public outbreak of violence that occurred in Chicago
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A unanimous court said that segregation was unconstitutional in schools. Segregated schools violated the 14th amendment which states Americans have equal protection under the law.
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De jure segregation is separation by law. De facto segregation is separation because of tradition or out of practice.
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A bright spot in the civil rights movement, which produced an organization, leader, and a technique.
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A group of African American students joined Little Rock Elementary School after the Brown V. Board of Education court case declared segregated schools unconstitutional.
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Joseph McNeil bought items at a segregated store then proceeded to sit down at the lunch counter and ordered coffee. This became a movement and spread throughout the south.
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Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern U.S. in order to show that segregated public buses are unconstitutional. (Rosa Parks was a freedom rider)
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The climax of the nonviolent campaign for civil rights, where about 200,000 people gathered in the nations capital, because they wanted federal civil rights.
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prohibited poll taxes in elections for federal officials.
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Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination
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Martin Luther King led Thousands of nonviolent demonstrators To the capital in Montgomery, Alabama where African Americans had been campaigning for their voting rights.
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Aimed to overcome barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th amendment of the Constitution.
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The Black Panther party was an organization of black nationalists in the U.S. This party wax inspired by an organization that Malcom X created called the 10 point program.
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Thurgood Marshall was a Civil Rights activist who was also a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP). He was the first African American Justice of the supreme court after fighting for Civil Rights.
