-
13th Amendment
No slavery is allowed, unless under punishment for commiting a crime. -
14th Amendment
All people born in the United States, are citizens. All people are allowed to have their own freedom. -
Wilimington Riot.
A attack Whites burned up peoples houses and burned the Brooklyn neighborhood, and the black population became a white population. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine brave sudents went to a all white school and got the career they deserved. -
Pearsall Plan
North Carolina's Pearsall Plan of 1956 did not in theory involve the formation of integrated schools, but it did offer parents and local school boards new tools for avoiding desegregation. -
Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks lead a Bus Boycott, she was fighting for her right to sit anywhere she wanted ont he bus so they decided not to ride the bus anymore, because she wanted her rights, and wanted to be able to sit anywhere she wanted. -
Greensboro Sit-in
Four Black college students went to a whites-only lunch counter at local Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for coffee. After the workers refused to serve them more students walked in. The manager finally said that he didnt mind serving them -
Selma Montgomery, Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was a march that 600 marchers, protesting the death of someone named Jimmie Lee Jackson. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
30 year old Homer Plessy was put in jail for sitting in a "white car". Since he was black he was suppose to sit in a "black car" he was fighting for his rights.
