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This court case made racism legal by approving separate but equal facilities
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was an instrumental organization in the 20th century for Black Rights.
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A case in which the supreme court ruled that "separate but equal" education between white and black students was unconstitutional
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A young African American who was assassinated by White Americans in Mississippi for flirting with a white girl.
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Ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott by not getting out of her seat for a white man on a Montgomery bus.
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A boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days.
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Won the case of Brown v Board of Education of Topeka court case. He dedicated his life to fighting racism and removing segregation with the NAACP
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Governor of Little Rock, Arkansas declared that the integration of African Americans in Central High School was illegal. Army was involved in protecting both sides, but eventually integration occured
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African Americans protesting by sitting in local areas with white Americans
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Civil Rights activists protested non-enforcement by riding buses into the south
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De jure segregation is "segregation by law", such as "Separate but equal", while De Facto segregation is "segregation by practice", such as African Americans voluntarily separating themselves
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more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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African American minister who led the Black Rights movement in the 1950-60s. Made the "I Have a Dream Speech". Inspired by historic transcendentalists.
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Prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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Law banned discrimination on basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion.
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Originally born Malcolm Little, he changed his last name to show his nonacceptance of his slave name. He was an American Muslim minister and black rights activist. Assassinated by Islamic people
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Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans had been campaigning for voting rights
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Made it easier for African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and authorizing federal examiners to enroll voters denied at the local level
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Riots consisting of African Americans and White Americans fighting for segregation laws and equality between races.
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A revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States
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It was the beginning of a series of lunch counter sit-ins, marches on City Hall and boycotts on downtown merchants to protest segregation laws in the city.
