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"Separate But Equal."
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Thurgood Marshall was a U.S. Supreme Court justice and civil rights advocate. He guided the litigation that destroyed the legal underpinnings of Jim Crow segregation.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States.
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Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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This was a supreme court case that banned racial segregation in children's public schools. This established the "separate but equal" education.
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de jure and de facto segregation are the most notorious use of these Latin expressions, there is another context where these expressions are used, and that is the hapless situation of statelessness.
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This was a civil rights protest in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery to protest segregated seating.
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Getting inspiration from both his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King led a nonviolent movement in the late 1950’s to achieve legal equality for African-Americans in the United States.
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Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.
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The little rock nine where 9 students that enrolled in a all white school and whites constantly interrogated the blacks.
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The Sit Ins moment was when 4 college students went to a local all white coffee shop and asked for a cup of coffee when they were refuse service they decided to sit there and wait.
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African Americans in cities nationwide were growing frustrated with the high level of poverty in their communities. Middle-class white Americans had been leaving the cities for nearby suburbs.
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Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals.
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The March On Washington was a Huge protest. 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.The protest aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation.
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Led by Martin Luther King Jr. Was a protest to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.This eventually led the municipal government to change the city's discrimination laws.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or sex. This was considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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The voting rights act of 1965 overcame legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
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The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama. In an effort to register black voters in the South, protesters marching the 54-mile route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were confronted with deadly violence from white vigilante groups.
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Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement.
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The Black Panther Party's core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in the city.
