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A case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation is legal. Established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Over 23 years, Marshall and his NAACP lawyers won 29 out of 32 cases argued before the Supreme Court.
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Case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional.
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De Jure- racial separation established by law.
De Facto- racial separation established by practice and custom, not by law -
Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. After she was arrested African Americans began to boycott public buses.
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NAACP officer who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.
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Elected to lead the NAACP group in the Montgomery Bus boycott. King took the concept of civil disobedience from writer Henry David Thoreau. He learned to organize massive demonstrations from Phillip Randolph. And he learned from Gandhi to resist oppression without violence.
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A 14-year-old African-American boy who allegedly flirted with a white woman and was violently murdered.
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"Little Rock Nine" - nine African American students volunteered to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.
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Four black students from North Carolina A&T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.
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One of the civil rights activists who rode buses throughout the South in the early 1960s to challenge segregation.
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A movement created to call attention to the effort of integration of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
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One of the largest political rallies for human rights in the United States that demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans.
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The United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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A law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places.
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African Muslim minister and human rights activist.
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Protesters marched from Selma to Montgomery in an effort to register black voters in the South.
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Aimed to overcome legal barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
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One of the worst race riots was in a neighborhood in LA. Thirty-four people were killed and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed.
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A militant African-American political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto.
