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Missouri Compromise
It basicly split the United States into two pieces orang slave states blue free states. -
Plessey vs Ferguson
State laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal." The court rejected Plessey's argument based on the 14th Amendment. -
Harlem Renaissance
It was a culturual movement that spanned in the 1920's. -
Brown vs Board of Education
This court battle made history. A black child wanted to go to an all white school the Board of Education wouldn't let her so she sued the Board of Education. The Browns won the court battle. -
Emmett Till murder
Emmett Till was a 14 years old and was black. He was murdered because he was reportedly was flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Park's bus boycott
Rosa Parks was an african american she was 42 years old. She refused to move from the seat of a bus when a white person asked her to move.So her and a bunch of african americans had boycotted. Rosa Parks and the other african americans won so they were able to sit whereever they wanted. -
Greensboro, NC sit in
A nonviolent protest. Which led to the Woolworth department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation. -
I Have a Dream speech
A public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King. -
Loving vs Virginia
It is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Spreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. -
Martin Luther King assassination
The shot that killed Dr. King was fired from the bathroom window in the rear of a roominghouse.
