Civil Rights

By 150004122

  • Thoreau

    Thoreau
    wrote a essay on civil disobedience

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson
    Supreme Court legalized racism.
    (separate but equal)

  • NAACP

    NAACP
    African American civil rights organization

  • Gandhi

    Gandhi
    Inspired Dr. MLK because of peaceful resistance

  • Race Riots

    Race Riots
    urban riots break out between races (competing for jobs)

  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
    Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional.

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    didn't give her bus seat up to a white person

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    (Rosa Parks) Blacks walked and carpooled to make a point about segregated buses.

  • Emmett Till

    Emmett Till
    lost his life {beaten to death young} to racist white males because he said baby to a white woman (joking)

  • Little Rock School Integration

    Little Rock School Integration
    9 Black Students attended all white school and faced riots and mobs almost everyday, assigned a solider to go with them everywhere.

  • The Sit-Ins

    The Sit-Ins
    College black students went to the all white tables and sat down. (kept siting and resisting to fight back) NASHVILLE (many arrested)

  • De jure vs. De Facto segregation

    De jure vs. De Facto segregation
    De Jure Segregation : segregation by law
    De Facto Segregation : segregation by choice {preference} "by fact"

  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall
    lawyer for Brown v. Board

  • Dr. MLK

    Dr. MLK
    non violent civil rights leader {christian}

  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X
    "Protect yourself" Black Power

  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    Blacks and White activist enter white only areas. {many got beat badly} (beat to get Kennedy's attention)

  • March On Washington

    March On Washington
    civil rights march to washington to speak on equal rights and jobs(MLK speech)

  • March On Birmingham

    March On Birmingham
    (blacks marching nonviolently) Black students being hurt by white authorities

  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment
    prohibits poll taxes for voting

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    outlawed discrimination based on your race, color of skin,and religion

  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    Blacks had to pass a literacy test and pay poll taxes to vote.

  • March From Selma to Montgomery

    March From Selma to Montgomery
    (for voting rights)walked for three days straight to Montgomery {faced physical racist authorities}

  • Black Panther Party

    Black Panther Party
    revolutionary black nationalist {violent if the have to be}