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Plessy v. Feruson
Supreme court ruled that separation in public places was legal and didn't violate the fourteenth amendment. Established "separate but equal." -
NAACP
Focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day. -
Race riots
increased population led to violence -
Malcomb X
A prominent black nationalist leader who served as a spokesman for the Nation of Islam during the 1950s and '60s. -
Thurgood Marshal
The nation's first black justice. Legal council of NAACP. -
Brown v. Board of education of Topeka
Segregation in schools -
De jure vs. De facto segresation
De jure segregation is separation enforced by law, while de facto segregation occurs when widespread individual preferences, sometimes backed up with private pressure, lead to separation. -
Emmett till
A 14- year old African American who was brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK was a baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. He was inspired in ways such as nonviolence by Gandhi, Thoreau and Randolph. -
Rosa Parks
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Montgomery bus boycott
Blacks refused to ride buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Began on court day of Rosa Parks. -
Little Rock school integration
9 Black students enrolled in a previously all white high school. -
The sit-ins
Activist would sit peacefully and patiently and wait to be served. -
Freedom rides
Activist rode interstate buses through the south. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
MLK led crowd through Birmingham -
24th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. -
Civil rights act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
March from Selma to Montgomery
Helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the South, and the need for a Voting Rights Act -
Voting rights act of 1965
Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from voting. -
Black Panthers
Advocated self sufficiency for African American communities. Fought police brutality in the ghetto. -
March on Washington
Over 200,000 Americans gathered in D.C. for rally.
