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segregation was legal, separate but equal.
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A African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois.
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Lasted for three days before thousands of Federal troops were called in to establish control
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was a civil-rights lawyer during brown vs. board of education
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Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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A African-American teenager who was lynched at the ager of 14 after flirting with a white woman.
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would not give up her seat to a white man. started the buss boycott.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, African Americans did not ride Montgomery city buses.
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"Little Rock nine." Nine black students attended central high school in Little Rock Arkansas.
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four black students from North Carolina sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro.
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961. Challenged the law which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
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A movement organized in early 1963 to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham Alabama.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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prohibited taxes on voting.
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A law that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Alabama focused it's efforts to register black voters in the south. protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities.
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Huey newton, and Bobby Seale founded the black panther party for defense.
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de facto segregation, segregation that existed because of the voluntary associations and neighborhoods. De jure segregation, segregation that existed because of local laws that mandated the segregation.
