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Determined seperate but equal. Legalized racism.
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Fought to end segregation.
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the Chicago Race Riot. Thes riots were caused by unequal rights.
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leader of an organization focused on challenging the most glaring inequalities of segregated public education.
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African-American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave before they were served.
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Illegalizeed segregation in schools. This started the momentum to unsegregate other aspects of everyday lives.
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Movement in the African American community to combat racial segregation on busses by the means of boycotting.
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Rosa Parks took a seat in the front row "colored" section of the bus. She was then arressted for not moving when told to do so.
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His passionate speech brought people to their feet and filled the audience with a sense of mission. Finally in 1956, the supreme court outlawed bus segregation.
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9 African American students had volunteered to integrate Little Rock's central highschool as the first step in Blossom's plan.
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Rode on buses hoping to provoke violent reactions that would convince the Kennedy administration to enforce the law.
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African-Americans marched through Birmingham to try to desegregate the public town.
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This march was intended to persuade congress to pass the civil rights bill.
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Prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender.
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Black Islamic minister that spoke for freedom. He also advocated armed self defense.
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Prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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This act eliminated the so-called literacy test that had disqualified many voters.
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3,000 marchers set out for Montgomery with federal protection. It soon grew to an army of 25,000.
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A political party founded to fight brutality in the ghetto. Believed that African Americans should be exempt from military service because an unfair amount of black youths had been drafted to serve in Vietnam.
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De facto segregation was segregation that exists by practice and custom. De jure seregation was segregation by law.
