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Plessy V. Ferguson
This court case is what started the concept of "Seperate but equal", the idea that white and black people would be allowed to have to go to seperate schools as long as they were considered to be of equal quality. For the next 60 years, African Americans would not get equal treatment as White Americans despite supposedly being equal. -
NAACP founded
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The sit-ins
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Brown was not allowed to send his daughter to an all white preschool, so he sued and the court rule that it was illegal for his daughter to be denied education at the all white school. This was an early example of the end of the "seperate but equal" ideology. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
After Rosa Parks arrest, the African American community decided to protest by not using busses until they would no longer be forced to sit in the back. This went on for roughly a year before the government gave in. -
Emmett Till
Emmett till was a 14 year old boy who was murdered after flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and was arrested, this sparked the bus boycott. -
Little Rock School Integration
When desegregation began to take place, Arkansas became the first state to begin desegregation, in the town of little rock, schools began desegregation, but Governer Orval Faubus was for segregation and ordered the National Guard to turn away the nine students attempting to go to the school. -
De jure vs. De Facto segregation
de jure segregation was segregation caused by laws, while de facto segregation was caused by social customs. -
Freedom Rides
to test if busses were truly no longer segregated, CORE members traveled across the south to test how well the laws were inforced properly. -
March on Washington
to encourage the passing of the bill Kennedy sent to Congress, the SCLC got people to march to washington to get congress to pass the bill. -
24th amendment
the 24th amendment forbade the use of a "poll tax" in which citizens had to pay to vote, commonly used to keep poor African Americans from voting. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
After JFK's assasination, his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, pledged to carry on Kennedy's work, he passed the Civil Rights Act, which made it illegal to discriminate because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The act that eliminated the Jim Crow laws and gave African Americans the right to vote. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a civil rights activist who took an aggressive approach towards civil rights rather than kings pacifist approach. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
in response to the death of a demonstrator, MLK announced that he would be marching from Selma to Montgomery, people watched in horror as the protesters were assaulted by police. Soon after, A voting rights act went to congress. -
Race Riots
After the voting rights act, Many "race riots" started to occur, first in los angelos, then in several places in 1966, and in 1967 there were over 100 riots. -
Black Panther Party Founded
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Thurgood Marshall
Became the First African American Supreme Court justice. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Pastor who became a civil rights icon for generations to come, lead several Civil rights movements. he was assassinated on April 3, 1968. -
March on Birmingham, alabama
to protest the total segregation in Birmingham, MLK and many other SCLC members marched through Birmingham. After many demonstrations, they were arrested.
