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Wrote a book about the concept of civil disobedience and to obey the law.
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Supreme Court ruled that separation of the races in public was legal. This was know as the "Separate But Equal: Doctrine
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An organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality.
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Led India to independence and to follow the movements for Civil Rights and freedom across the world.
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A major racial conflict that happened in Chicago.
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Legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He guided the litigation that destroyed the legal underpinnings of Jim Crow segregation.
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He learned to organize massive demostrations
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Baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement. He fought equality for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and victims of injustice through peaceful protest.
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African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama
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Supreme Court ruled "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional.
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Refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus
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African American boy who flirted with a white women. He was shot and beaten.
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African American students were transferred to Little Rock High School top start the integration of blacks into white schools
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One of the civil rights activist who rode buses through the south in the early 1960s to challenge segregation.
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A political rally to Protest segregation over 200,000 people rallied in Washington D.C.
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Political Protest. Protesters were met with violence from citizens on Birmingham.
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He was a Nationalist and religious leader. He was not sufficiently support the civil rights movement.
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A law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces.
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Prohibited paying a toll for federal elections.
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African Americans to register to vote by eliminating discriminatory to enroll voters denied at the local level.
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African Americans peaceful protest from slema to Montgomery. The Protesters were beaten and met tear gas as they walked to Montgomery
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Huey Newton and Bobby Seale fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto
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African Americans protest discrimination
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De jure - racial separation established by law
De facto - racial separation established by practice and custom, NOT a law