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Plessy v Ferguson
The supreme court case "seperate but equal" -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
U.S civil rights organization that helped African Americans in the Civil Rights movement. -
Jackie Robinson
First African American player in major leagues (baseball). -
Sweatt v Painter
Challenged the Plessy v Ferguson case & won, ended racial segregation -
Brown v Board of Education
Supreme court case that ended "black" & "white" schools -
Medger Evers
An American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregatiom there and gain social justice and voting rights. -
Montgomery bus boycott
Martin Luther King Jr. organized the boycott , which began a chain reaction of similar boycotts. -
"The Southern Manifesto"
Document written in opposition to racial integration of public places -
Little Rock - Central High School
Recognized for the role it played in the desegregation of public schools. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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"Freedom rides"
A group of northern idealists active in the civil rights movement. The Freedom Riders, who included both blacks and whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960s in order to challenge racial segregation. -
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. SNCC legacy is the destruction of the psychological shackles which had kept black southerners in physical and mental peonage; SNCC helped break those chains forever. It demonstrated that ordinary women and men, young and old, could perform extraordinary tasks. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
One of the most important orginizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. -
Greensboro sit-in
Greensboro sit-in was the most influential and significant sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Freedom Rides
Group of northern idealists active in the Civil Rights Movement. Rode busses to the South to challenge racial segregation. -
James Meredith
First African American to attend the university of Mississippi. -
Letter from Birmingham jail
A letter that Martin Luther King Jr addressed to his fellow clergymen while in jail. -
March on Washington
One of the largest political rallies for human rughts in US history and demained civil and economic rights. -
Bombing of Birmingham church
Four girls died in the hate-bombing of the church. -
Civil Rights Act passed
Federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public. -
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. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Volunteer campaign in the US launched in 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Voting Rights Act approved
Cannot demy or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote because of race or color. -
Malcolm X assassinated
One of the most important African American political leaders of the twentith century assassinated. -
Selma to Montogomery church
MLK led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama after a 5 day, 54 mile march. -
Black Panthers
Orginization setup in the US to fight for black rights. -
King assassinated
Shot dead while standing on a blacony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Tennesse. -
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