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The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks court hearing and lasted about 381 days.
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The decision established the doctrine of "separate but equal" which allows states to maintain segregated facilities for blacks and whites as long as they provided equal service.The decision permitted legalized racial segregation for almost 60 years.
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African American civil rights organization in the United States formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey
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Charged the bored of education of Topeka, Kansas, with violating Linda right by denying her admission to an all white elementary school four blocks from her house.
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Won Brown vs. Board Education
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Lynched in Mississippi for flirting with white women.
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Stuck up for Civil Rights and wouldn't move to the back of the bus.
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African American students who had volunteered to integrate little Rocks Central High School as the first step in Blossoms plan.
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4 black students sit at lunch coiner at Woolworth.
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Leaders voice of Civil Rights Radicalized wing, alternative to MLK.
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segregaton was illegal on interstate facilities and terminals.
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200,000 march for jobs freedom MLK "i have a dream"
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Defact segregation by social custom
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outlaw discrimination based on race, color sex, religion or native origin.
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prohibits poll tax elections. If black you gotta pay to vote.
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prohibits racial discrimination and voting.
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over black right to vote. Marched for black right to vote.
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a black motorist was pulled over by white cop for DUI. Arrested and people protested.
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Black Panther Party practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government.
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MLk- leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Gandhi-Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement.
Thoreau- Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist and naturalist.
Randolph-played a crucial role in gaining recognition of African Americans in labor organizations.
