Famous African Americans

By CoachWitt
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    Civil Rights

    Civil Rights in America

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    landmark Supreme Court decision ruling against segregation, which overruled the 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson decision

  • Rosa Parks

    Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, AL bus to a white passenger.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    supreme court rules that segregation on buses in Montgomery, AL is unconstitutional

  • MLK, Jr.

    Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr begins speaking out for civil disobedience