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Was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
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Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
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Orval Eugene Faubus was an American politician who served as the Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1955 to 1967
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A case regarding school desegregation, decided by the Supreme Court in 1954.
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A form of nonviolent protest, employed during the 1960s in the civil rights movement and later in the movement against the Vietnam War.
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George Corley Wallace, Jr. was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama,
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Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
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Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr., was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971
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the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.
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a seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
