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Plessy V.Ferguson
Was a landmark United States Supreme Court decison upholding the constitutionlity of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
A. Phillip Randolph
Was a leader of the African American Civil Rights Movement; he organized and led the Brother Hood of Sleeping Car Porters. He led the March on Washington, which convinced President Franklin D, Roosevelt to issue Executive Order of 8802.
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James Mederith
He became the first African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, after the intervention of the federal government. It was a flash point in the African American Civil Rights Movement. -
Committee on Civil Rights
Was established by Executive Order 9808 and was instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them. -
Jakie Robinson
Was an American Major League Baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era. He broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base.The Dodgers ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. -
Governor Faubus
Arkansas Democractic Governor Faubus became the national symbol of racial segregation when he used Arkansas National Gaurdsmen to block the enrollment of nine black students who had been ordered by a federal judge to desegrate Little Rock's Central High School. -
Elizabeth Eckford
Was a member of the Little Rock Nine; she was desegrated from the Little Rock Central High School. Her public ordeal was captured by press photographers, after she was prevented from entering the school by Arkansas NationalGuard.(Board V. Board of Topeka)
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First Civil Rights Act
This law established the United Civil Rights Commission , which had the power to investigate violations of Civil Rights and it gave the U.S.Attorney General greater power to protect the voting rights of African Americans. -
Samuel O' Quin
He was a successful businessman and lived in Centerville, Wilkinson County. Local black residents stated that O’Quinn was murdered because he had joined the NAACP and was preparing to engage in civil rights activity in Wilkinson. -
Clyde Kennard
He put his life on the line in the 1950s when he attempted to desegregate higher education in Mississippi. Kennard, a little-known civil rights pioneer, tried to become the first African American to attend Mississippi Southern College, now the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg. -
The Ku Klux Klan
Was an American organization that are hatred to all races that are not white and to nonprotest religions.They focused on opposition to the Civil Rights Movement, often using violence and murder to suppress activists.
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Arrest of Martin Luther King in Alabama
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham. -
Second Civil Rights Act
The first law addressing the legal rights of African Americans passed by Congress Reconstruction. It had established the Civil Rights division on the Justice Department and U,S, Civil Rights Commission to investigate claims of racial discrimination. -
Voting Rights Act
This act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson and it outlawed the discrimination voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. It also includes literacy tests as a prequisite to voting. -
Black Power movement at its peak
It is used by African Americans in the United States. It was prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, emphasizing racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests and advance black values. -
Black Panthers
Was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with its only international chapter operating in Algeria. The Black Panther Party's core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality in Oakland, California. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Some people said King's assassination meant the end of the strategy of nonviolence. King was staying in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He had gone out onto the balcony and was standing near his room when he was struck at 6:01 p.m., by a single .30-06 bullet fired from a Remington Model 760. -
Anne Moody
American civil rights activist and writer whose Coming of Age in Mississippi, an autobiographical account of her personal and political struggles against racism in the South, became a classic.
