Civil Rights Movement

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  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    declared segregation as constitutional

  • NAACP

    Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination"

  • Norris vs. Alabama

    African-American defendant is denied due process rights if the jury pool excludes African-Americans.

  • CORE

    CORE believed that nonviolent civil disobedience could also be used by African-Americans to challenge racial segregation in the United States.

  • Sweatt vs. Painter

    State law schools must admit qualified African American applicants

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional

  • Rosa Parks

    arrested for not moving to the back of the bus

  • SCLC

    set out to eliminate segregation and to encourage African Americans to vote