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Plessy v Freguson
Plessy v Ferguson is a protest about not making colors separted because of their color but because they want to be separted. The "Separted, but Equal" law was finally passed on May 18 , 1896.
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Civil Rights
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CORE ; Congress of Racial Equality
CORE was one of the "big four" organizations for the civil rights movement. CORE played a hugh role in the civil rights. It lasted for many years. Primary -
Sweatt v Painter
Sweatt was a black male that asked to be accepted into the University of Texas and was denied because of his race. He then begin to protect about being equal to whites. Another "separated but equal" protest.Primary -
Brown v Board of Education
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Montgomery bus boycott
Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott and it had a chain reaction in the South. The boycott was a protest to stop separation on the bus because of your color.Link -
"The Southern Manifesto"
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Little Rock - Central High School
9 black students attened Little Rock all white school. It was the most national example of the Brown v Board Education protest.Primary -
SCLC ; Southern Christian Leadership Conference
A group of blackes comikng together for civil rights. They met all over the South for the Bus Boycotts. The founder was Martin Luther King Jr. History -
SNCC; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC was a protest group for younger blacks because Ella Baker felt the young black communtity was out of touvh wuth the civil rights movement. Link -
Greensboro sit-in
PrimaryThese were nonviolet sit-ins ; its when blacks went into restaurants and sat at the counters and sat for hours no words just sat and they got beat out of restaurants because of this. -
"Freedom RIdes"
This is a group of protesters who rode a bus all the way to the segregated side of the southern. Primary -
Medger Evers
A civil rights male who organized vorter-registration efforts ; and boycotts for companies that are racist. Bio -
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Primaryprohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote for elections and so on -
James Meredith
BioJames Meredith is a black civil rights male who got accepted into the Univeristy of Mississippi in 1962. -
"Letter from Birmingham jail"
This is a letter from Martin Luther King Jr. to his fellow clergymen from when he was in jail.Letter -
March on Washinton
This is the march where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his big famous speech, This was the march for freedom. 200,000 people was there. Primary -
Bombing on Birmingham church
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a act of white terrorism towards the black community. Info -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a campain to get as many black voters as possible to vote in Mississippi which had excluded colors from voting.Link -
Civil Right Act passed
The law was passed that we no longer had to be separete because of our colors on our skin. Link -
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Selma to Montgomery march
PrimaryMartin Luther King Jr. led a march to Montgomery , Alabama. It took 5 day to get to SNCC & SCLC. -
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Black Panthers
member of a militant black American organization for black rights. Co-founder is Bobby Seale.Bio -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the black male baseball to get signed to the major leads. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Bio
