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Plessy VS Ferguson
During this case the people were trying to find out if separate facilities were fair. At the end of the case the judge decided that they were but that the had to be equal. -
Brown V Board of Education of Topeka
This case was made by a father saying that his daughter shouldn't have to go all the way across town to go to an all black school when there was a school right by them. It end with a decision that schools aren't allowed to be segregated. -
De jure vs De facto segregation
De jure is when the segregation is enforced by the law. De facto is segregation that just happens it is not by law -
Montgomery bus boycott
It started with Rosa Parks not giving up her seat to a white man. Once she was arrested people started to boycott the buses. This boycott lasted 381 days. -
Little rock school integration.
Nine African American kids were integrated into the Little Rock schools but on the first day weren't allowed in because of protesters. -
Sit- Ins
African Americans would go in and sit at white only lunch counters. The sit ins were non-violent but they were still arrested for it. -
Freedom Rides
Civil rights activists would ride interstate buses into segregated areas. By doing this they were protesting segregation in interstate bus terminials -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
It was a series of lunch counter sit ins and marches on city hall. -
March on Washington
A political rally where they marched for rights and jobs in washington. -
24th amendment
Ended the poll taxes in elections for federal elections. -
Civil rights act of 1964
This act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination -
March from Selma to Montgomery
The people marched to earn voting rights. When they reached Montgomery they were faced with violent protesters but they finally reached their goal. -
Race riots
These happened everywhere. They were about the police using excessive force on people so people would riot.
