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The court case that legalized racism and created the separate but equal belief.
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An African American boy who was lynched for flirting with a white woman.
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A major civil rights organization still around today.
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Court case that proved segregated education is unconstitutional.
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Civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and spurred the Montgomery bus boycott.
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A boycott of public buses by African Americans because of the arrest of Rosa Parks and many like her.
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Little Rock integrated its high school with many protesters against it Eisenhower called in the national guard to protect them.
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When protesters made up of mainly students protested by sitting at white only lunch counters and restaurants.
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Two different types of ideals where jure is justified by law and facto is based on common belief but not ordained by law.
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Civil rights activists rode interstate buses into the south to challenge non-enforcement.
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A movement in Birmingham made up of sit-ins, boycotts, and marches on city hall to protest segregation.
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Civil rights leader who showed people how to fight the injustice of segregation through non-violent protest.
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One of the largest political rallies in US history, where MLK spoke at the Lincoln memorial for equal rights.
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Prohibited Congress or states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax.
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The first African American Supreme Court justice and was instrumental in ending legal segregation.
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Piece of legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, religion, or sex.
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An act passed by Johnson to allow African Americans to vote freely.
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MLK led thousands of protesters to the capital of Montgomery to protest for voting rights.
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Revolutionary black nationalist organization active during the civil rights movement.
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Riots occurred all over the US because of the injustice African Americans were experiencing.
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A very radical civil rights leader who thought the use of force was not out of the question shown by his speech "The Ballot or the Bullet".
