Foundation of American Government

  • sharecropping

  • black codes

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

  • Thurgood Marshall

    Died: Jan.24,1993
  • Orville Faubus

    Died: December 14,1994
  • Rosa Parks

    Died: October 24,2005
  • Lester Maddox

    Died: June 25,2003
  • George Wallace

    Died: September 13, 1998
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Died: April 4,1868
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Ended: December 20,1956
  • Sits-ins

    A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.
  • Brown V. Furguson