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plessy vs. Ferguson
Homer Plessy sat in the whites only car of a train. He was arrested and tried then convicted. Plessy appealed, claiming that he was denied equal rights of protection. -
NAACP
National association for the advancement of colored people -
race riots
african american teenager was drowned in a lake for not following the unofficial segregation. police refused to arrest the white man who done it. So people from chicago started riots. -
the sit ins
african american protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they got served. -
little rock school integration
9 african americans were allowed to go to a white school but were abused coming to and from school by the students and troops hired to keep them out. -
brown vs. board of education of topeka
The browns lived near a white school but his daughter had to ride a bus all the way across town to a black school. So her father protested. -
montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks took a seat on the white side of the bus and refused to give her seat up to a white man. She was arrested. So african americans stop taking the bus. They walked, or car pooled but mainly walked everywhere. -
freedom rides
2 buses with blacks and whites on it riding across the south to test the supreme court decisions banning segregated seating. -
March on birmingham alabama
MLK flew into birmingham to hold a meeting with members of african american community. -
March on Washington
more than 250,000 people ( 75,000 were white) assembed on the grass of the capital to listen to speakers one being Martin Luther King Jr. -
24th amendment
The right of citizens to vote -
civil rights act of 1964
ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on of race. -
voting rights act of 1965
Eliminated the so-called literacy tests that disqualified many voters. 60 percent of african americans were now voters. -
march from selma to montgomery for voting rights
MLK marched for the right to vote for african americans -
black panther party
