Civil rights movement

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    -“Separate but equal”
    -States were now allowed to pass Jim Crow laws
    -African Americans were usually of poorer quality than those provided for whites
  • Brown vs board of education

    Brown vs board of education

    -applied to only public schools
    -led to the overturning of many public segregation laws
    -failed to set a timetable for desegregation
    -schools continued practiced to be unequal of several years
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott

    -successful outcome
    -started the civil rights movement
    -Rosa parks was asked to move out of the front of the bus, she refused to move
    -Martin Luther king was the main leader of this movement
    -demonstrated that nonviolent protest could be successful
    -The organization challenged segregation at voting booths and in public transportation, housing, and accommodations
  • The sit in movement

    The sit in movement

    -four African American guys sat down at an white only table, to prove that they arent afraid
    -brought large numbers of idealistic and energized college students into the civil rights struggle
    -produced a new sense of pride and power for African American
  • Freedom riders

    Freedom riders

    -groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals
    -violence led to buses to be bombed