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Plessy vs Ferguson
Supreme Court case which established separate but equal & led to Jim Crow laws -
Orval Faubus
Arkansas governor who defied the Supreme Court until Eisenhower sent in paratroopers to enforce desegregation -
Soul force
MLK's idea of using peaceful non-violent disobedience to work for civil rights -
Jim Crow laws
Southern laws which separated the races after Plessy v. Ferguson -
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP attorney who argued for desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education -
NAACP
oldest civil rights organization which worked for equality through court cases -
Southern manifesto
document by congressmen declaring their intention to ignore federal desegregation laws -
Montgomery improvement association( Mia)
Civil rights organization that organized the bus boycott, headed by MLK -
Martin Luther king jr.
pastor & civil rights leader who led SCLC and organized non-violent protests throughout the south -
John Lewis
student leader of SNCC who organized sit-ins, spoke in Washington, & marched in Selma -
Brown v.s board of ed
Linda brown had to walk a mile to go to schools instead of three blocks -
Montgomery bus boycotts
Emit till was murdered so rosa parks didn’t give up her seat to a white person was arrested -
Brown v.s board of ed 2
Where all schools are to be intergrated by court -
Rosa parks
NAACP secretary who prompted the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat -
Little Rock 9
Nine black students decide to cross the color barrier -
Sit ins
Lunch counters didn’t serve blacks so they sat until they were arrested -
Freedom riders
2 bus’s deported black and white bus was bombed and hurt many and killed few -
James meridith
Victory for immigration and federalism joined a all white college -
Birmingham
Civil right bill came out most effective -
March on Washington
Open March supported by government -
Mississippi freedom summer
1,200 new voters -
March from Selma
March for voter registration pressure leads to voting rights
