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Plessy Vs Ferguson
"Separate But Equal." -
Thurgood Marshall
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. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
This was a supreme court case that banned racial segregation in children's public schools. This established the "separate but equal" education. -
De jure VS De Facto Segregation
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. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was a civil rights protest in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery to protest segregated seating. -
Dr. Martin Luther King
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. -
Emmett Till
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. -
Little Rock Integration
The little rock nine where 9 students that enrolled in a all white school and whites constantly interrogated the blacks. -
The Sit Ins
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. -
Race Riots
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. -
Freedom Rides
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. -
March On Washington
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. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
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. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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. -
24th Amendment
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. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for Voting Rights
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. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. -
Black Panther Party
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.
