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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was born on July 7th, 1908. Thurgood Marshall was the first African American in the Supreme court. Marshall was a civil rights advocate. His grandfather was a slave, however managed to escape and move up North. His father would take him to watch court cases which is where his career for law took off. Marshall was an Attorney for the NAACP, where he was involved in racial justice. -
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Malcom X
Born on May 19, 1925, Malcom Little was an African American Muslim minister, & human rights activist. Malcom would preach racism and violence to end segregation. Malcom was called one of the greatest & most influential African American in history.
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Brown V. Board of Education
Linda Brown had to walk a mile in order to get to her school, while there was a school right by her house, however this school was an all whites school that she could not attend. A group of 13 parents including Linda's dad sued the Topica School Board. Three Judges ruled for the school, saying the students of colored get treated the same as the white students. This was taken all the way to the U.S Supreme court. This trial ended segregation in school. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. This protest was done to end segregated seating. -
Little Rock Nine
A group of Nine African American college students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. However weren't able to go in because they were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus (Governor of Arkansas). On the 2nd day a large white mob began shouting, throwing stones and threatened to kill the students. The students stayed home fro 18 days after this incident but sneaked in and were discovered & got attacked. They returned Sep. 25 protected by U.S soldiers. -
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Woolworth's Sit In
On Feb. 1st, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greenboro, North Carolina. They politely got asked to get out, however they remained seated. The peaceful sit down helped ignite a movement. Hundreds of students, civil rights organizations, churches & members of the community joined in this 6 month long protests. This movement led to the desegregation at the F.W Woolworth lunch counter. -
Freedom Ride
Freedom Writers were people who were determined to change segregation. They mixed colored and whites on public buses. The purpose was to travel into the Jim Crow segregated South & put an end to the racial discrimination and transportation segregation. The KKK hated the freedom writers. The KKK were given permission to beat the riders which led to the bus being fire bombed. -
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Bloody Sunday
600 people led by John Lewis & Hosea Williams began a 54 mile march from Selma, Alabama to the state Capitol in Montgomery. These marches were for African American voting rights, and the death of Jimmie Lee who was shot 3 weeks prior to the marches. When they got to the Pettus Bridge there were brutally assaulted by armed state troopers who threw tear gas into the crowd. Because of these marches US congress passed the voting rights act letting African Americans over 21 the right to vote. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
African American Homer Plessy bought a first class ticket for a train trip. He sat in the all white coach and was told to move, however he refused to. He was kicked out and put into jail, he argued how he was 7/8 white and should be allowed to sit in the all white coach. He was then taken to trial where he argued that the law was unconstitutional, Judge Ferguson disagreed which caused the trail to go to the US supreme court. However the Supreme court said it didn't violate the 14th Amendment.
