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Plessy vs Ferguson
legalized segregation separate but equal -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
started up to end segregation -
Thurgood Marshall
lawyer for NAACP -
The Sit-Ins
students did 1st peaceful sit-in protest Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
school desegregation -
Rosa Parks
Montgomery bus protest -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
the year African Americans stopped riding buses -
Emmett Till
Lynched in Mississippi -
Little Rock School Inttegration
school desegregation crisis -
Freedom Rides
protesting segregation on intrastate bus routes -
March on Washington
march to Washington for dreams of equality -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
desegregate public facilities -
24th Amendment
eliminated poll taxes -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibit discrimination of race,religion and gender -
Voting Rights Acts of 1965
eliminated literary tests for voting -
Race Riots
urban violence -
March from Selma to Montgomery for Voting Rights
protect voting rights -
De Jure vs. De Facto Segregation
segregation by law or custom -
Malcolm X
racial pride-Preacher -
The Black Panther Party
fight cops brutality in the ghetto -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./Ghandi/Thoreau/Randolph
MLK was assassinated; Thorough-civil disobedience Writings; Gandhi-Peaceful leader in India; Randolph-writer on how to do massive demonstrations
