-
Plessy v. Ferguson
<a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson</a>Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. Rejecting Plessy’s argument that his constitutional rights were violated, the Court ruled that a state law that “implies merely a legal distinction” between whites and blacks did not conflict with the 13th and14th Amendments. -
Medgar Evers
<a href='' >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers</a>An American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and gain social justice and voting rights. -
James Meredith
James Meredith is a civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962. -
CORE
<a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/congress-of-racial-equality</a> The Congress of Racial Equality became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Jackie Robinson
<a href='' >http://www.biography.com/people/jackie-robinson-9460813</a> played his first game in Ebbets Field for the Brooklyn Dodgers ecoming the first black player to compete in the major leagues. -
Sweatt v. Painter
<a href='' >www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/339/629</a>Petitioner was denied admission to the state supported University of Texas Law School, solely because he is a Negro and state law forbids the admission of Negroes to that Law School. He was offered, but he refused, enrollment in a separate law school newly established by the State for Negroes. A Texas trial court found that a newly established state law school for Negroes offered petitioner "privileges, advantages, and opportunities for the study of law substantially equivalent to those offered -
Brown v. Board of Education
www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown</a> Acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, -
The Southern Manifesto
www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.</a>A resolution condemning the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The resolution called the decision "a clear abuse of judicial power" and encouraged states to resist implementing its mandates. -
Southen Christain Leadership conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Little Rock - Central High School
<a href='' >www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration</a>A key event of the American Civil Rights Movement, nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957, testing a landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. -
Greenboro Sit-in
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement, became one of the movement’s more radical branches. -
Freedom Rides
On May 4, 1961, a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. -
Letter from Brimingham jail
While he was confined in the Birmingham city jail, he came across recent statement calling present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas." he said. -
March on Washington
The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirited call for racial justice and equality. -
Bombing of Birmingham church
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham -
Twenty-fourth Amendment
Do not have to pay poll tax to vote -
Selma to Montgomery March
Protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
the Congress on Racial Equality and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee organized a voter registration drive. -
Civil rights act passed
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Malcolm X Assassination
Shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. -
Voting Rights Act approved
Overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. -
Black Panther Party
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. -
King Assassinated
James Earl Ray A confirmed racist and small-time criminal, Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King in Memphis confessing to the crime the following March.
