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Supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities.
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Was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991.
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An African American civil rights organization in the United States
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An African American civil rights activists. Known for the montgomery bus boycott.
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"A man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans."-Wikipedia
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Was an American baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and a leader in the Civil rights movement.
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An African American teenager who was lynched at the age of 14 in Mississippi after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
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Riots based in race that lasted 3 days in Detroit Michigan. Thousands of federal troops were called to try to control people.
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decision orders desegregation of schools.
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This took place after Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. The boycott lasted 381 days.
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A group of 9 African American students enrolled in little rock central high school which involved much protest.
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4 African American students from North Carolina A&T college sat down at a woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro.
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Freedom riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states.
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It was a movement organized in early 1963 by the SCLC to bring attention to the integration efforts by African Americans.
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A large march for jobs and freedom, one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history.
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prohibiting poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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57 mile walk/protest that took place over 3 days for African American voting rights.
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The terms de jure and de facto are used instead of "in law" and "in practice", respectively, when one is describing political or legal situations.
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"aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment."- Google
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"Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs."-Marxists.org
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Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
