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A court case ruled against ending segregation for African Americans but instead created a new idea of separate but equal.
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to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination
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leader of the Indian independence movement in India. Used nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence
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African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement and He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters first African American work union
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Human rights activist one of the greatest behind MLK
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Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
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African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
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started buss boycott arrested for not giving seat up for a white person
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African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating
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Civil rights leader the most known around the world was killed after he gain social equality for African Americans
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Known for Civil-disobedience many civil rights movement leaders followed his teachings
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Nine African American students enrolled in a white High School. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis.
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is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest.
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The country was on fire riots in every state in the 60's
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civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United
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prohibits Congress and the states from having the right to vote in federal elections.
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Was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans
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Black from all over peacefully protest segregation and integration
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New law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools
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protesters march from Selma to Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities.
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Meant to overcome legal barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote
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Racial segregation established by law and by practice
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revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization
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Was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
