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- Plessy v. furguson 2.“separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal 3. for them to put blacks and whites in school together.
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1.Rosa did not want to give up her seat to a white man when she was on the bus. 2. she was arrested and she started a boycott it made other blacks feel like they had more power to stand up for them selves.
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- President Dwight D. Eisenhower 2.signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Originally proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights
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1.They had nine African american kids go to an all white high school 2.the government protected them by sending troops with them during the school day and to take them home.
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1.Accused of the rape and kidnap of a white woman, 2.
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1.Though many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact, forcing Woolworth’s and other establishments to change their segregationist policies
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1.13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. 2.i think the NAACP helped them 3.most of them were black only few whites were involved.
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1.they started a riot and destroyed things 2.cause they were saying things about him going their
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1.was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans 2.
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- Medgar EversMedgar Evers was a civil rights activist who organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. 2.he was shot dead
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1.to get freedom of Jobs and Freedom 2.the famous speech was Martin Luther Kings speech
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1.president Johnson 2. civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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1.the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. That March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state 2. finally achieved their goal, walking around the clock for three days to reach Montgomery 3The historic march, and King’s participation in it, greatly helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the South, and the need for a Voting Rights Act, passed later that year.
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- A native Floridian and combat veteran of the Korean War, Jackson served as treasurer of the Natchez NAACP. He was married to Exerlena Jackson and the couple had five children 2.
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1.University. As counsel to the NAACP, he utilized the judiciary to champion equality for African Americans 2.because he change lives and kinda change the world
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1.was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. 2.because he change peoples mines about racism he impacted peoples lives
