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Made racism legal. Said that everyone could be seperated by race as long as they were equal.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the U.S. that tries to get justice for African Americans.
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A series of violent riots against African American and other people of color
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An African American man who was sent to jail for burglary. When he got out of jail he became an Islamic Minister. Malcolm X increased racial pride and inspired many African Americans.
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De Facto segregation is based off of human nature. De Jure segregation is the segregation declared by the law
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The all white school wouldn't let Linda Brown go to their school because she was African American and her family took the school to court. the Court sided with the Brown family.
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Thurgood was an African American lawyer who fought for the Brown family in the Brown v. Board of Educations Court case and won.
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An African American boy from chicago went to mississippi to visit his cousin. Emmett said bye to a white woman and four days later his body was found in a river brutally murdered and tied to a farm machine. The men convicted for his murder were found not guilty.
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When Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man African Americans boycotted the buses for a year until they changed to rules
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The School of little Rock refused to integrate Their school after segregation of schools became illegal. The Nine African American students who attended Little Rock had to be escorted by police officers to school and to every class.
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Rosa Parks was an African American women who refused to give up her seat to a White man on the bus. She was arrested and because of that the Montgomery bus boycott started.
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African Americans would go into all white restaurants and sit at the lunch counters in protest. In some cases people would beat them up, but most of the time they would just get arrested.
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Group of African Americans rode the buses in the south in hopes to activated desegregated buses. They receive violent reactions from People
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An amendment placed to delete poll taxes.
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This March was a series of peaceful protests by African Americans in 1963. The series of protests consist of marching on City Hall, lunch counter sit ins, and boycotting
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Its a law that was passed in 1964 stating that discrimination against race, region, origin and gender is illegal.
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This Right removed literacy tests making it easier for African Americans to vote
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After the murder of a civil rights activist MLK organized a march from Selma to Montgomery. This March influenced President Johnson to establish voting rights.
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A political party who fought against police brutality in the ghetto
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Almost 300,000 Americans Gathered in Washington to hear speeches from Civil Rights Activists.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a reverend and a civil rights activist who was chosen to lead the Montgomery bus boycott. MLK went on from there to lead many more civil rights movements and gave the famous speech called 'I have a Dream' in Washington. Martin gained his ideas for peaceful protests from Ghandi. Thoreau taught civil disobedience which influenced MLK to fight. He also learned to gather large groups of people from Randolph.
