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http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson
case stated that places could still be segregated but they have to be equal. -
http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers-9542324
a civil rights activist that helped create boycotts for companies that practiced discrimination -
http://www.biography.com/people/james-meredith-9406314
Became a civil rights activist after becoming a lawer
(not dead) -
http://www.core-online.org/History/history.htm
founded by an interracial group of youth that wanted to change racist attitude -
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/jackie-robinson
Broke the color barrier in major league baseball -
http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/09/21/sweatt-v-painter/
A black mail carrier applied for the texas school of law. saying that the texas school of law and the texas school of law for negreos. -
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka
over turned the plessy v ferguson -
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott
after rosa parks refused to give up her seat, MLK called for a peaceful boycott of the bus system -
http://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/southern-manifesto-introduced-march-12-1956-019897
Claimed that brown v board of education was an over reach of judicial power -
http://nationalsclc.org/about-us/history/
A congregation of leaders from ten states met in alabama to discuss non violent integration -
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http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sncc
started to help give blacks more of a voice. it helped people get involved and increased the speed for which things were done -
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in
The sit caused the school to integrate, and many other schools started doing the same thing. -
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides
Many people left from washington D.C and rode the buses into the deep south. every stop along the way blacks would use white only service counters and water fountains. and vice versa -
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Discusses non-violent protests to racism -
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington
People of all color marched on Washington for equality of blacks. demanding fairness in pay and jobs. -
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/birmingham-church-bombing
a bomb blew up before a service at the 16th street baptist church -
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States_of_America_1992
no person should be removed from the right to vote for not paying poll tax -
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=97
For the equal treatment of people no matter race -
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-summer
to help expand black voting in the south -
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm-x-assassinated
Malcolm X (leader of the black panthers) was murdered -
http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_selma_to_montgomery_march/
MLK led thousands of non-violent protesters to the steps of the Montgomery capital building -
https://ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=100
the voting rights were approved -
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination
MLK shot by a rifle on the second floor of a hotel -
A political party based on violence and fear to get their communist ideals heard.
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/