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Plessy v. Ferguson
Legalized racism, Separate but equal -
NAACP
Ensures the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. -
Thurgood Marshall
Won the Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
De jure vs.De Facto segregation
De jure segregation is separation enforced by law, while de facto segregation occurs when widespread individual preferences lead to separation. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman -
Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Colored people refuse to ride the bus to make a statement that they are done being pushed around. People such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. inspired the people to stand up for what they believe in. -
The Sit-Ins
Group of people who protested anti-segregation by sitting at white only lunch counters -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
A massive direct action campaign to attack the city’s segregation system -
March on Washington
One of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans -
MLK:Gandhi, Thoreau, Randolph
Dr. King led peaceful, persistent protest for change but these were his inspirations. -
24th amendment
Prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibited discrimination of race, religion, national origin, or gender. -
Race Riots
The first in a series of violent riots through American cities. Highlighted racial injustice and served as a powerful indicator of inequality in the states. -
March from Selma to Mintgomery for voting rights
Protesters attempt to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery but suffered from violent resistance along the way as it took three days to achieve their goal. This brought awareness to the difficulty faced by black voters in the South. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminates the so called literacy tests that disqualified "uneducated" voters -
Malcolm X
He challenged the mainstream civil rights movement and the nonviolent pursuit of integration. -
Black Panther Party
The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.
