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Desegregation
Its the ending of segregation for colored people. -
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14th Amendment
Means that people should be treated with their rights and and in response to issues related to former slaves following the american civil war. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
This was a supreme court case in Louisiana about segregation under separate but equal. It was a fight with segregation. -
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Thurgood Marshall
First African American court justice. -
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Orval Faubus
He was the 36th Governor of Arkansas from 1955 1967. -
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was the first lady of the civil rights movement and was called the mother of the freedom movement. -
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Hector P. Garcia
Hector Perez Garcia was a Mexican american physician surgeon world war II veteran civil rights advocate, and founder of the american G.I. Forum. -
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Lester Maddox
Was an 75th Governor of the state Georgia from 1967 to 1971. -
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George Wallace
Was the 45th Governor of Alabama -
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Betty Friedan
An american writer activist and feminist. Leading figure in the woman's movement in the U.S. -
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Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an american labor leader and civil rights activist who with Dolores Huerta founded the national farm workers association in 1962. -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
An african american that was a huge leader in the civil rights movement and gave all black people the same rights in america. -
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Stokely Carmichael
Kwame Ture was a trinidadian American who became a prominent figure in the civil rights Movement and the global African movement he grew up in the United States from the age of 11 and became an activist while he attended Howard University. -
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Desegregation
An ending of segregation of blacks. -
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CORE
Was rights only for the blacks. -
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Non violent Protest
is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests civil disobedience economic or political noncooperation satyagraha or other methods while being nonviolent. -
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Brown v. Board of education
Supreme court case that was about separating blacks and whites from schools. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The montgomery bus boycott a seminal event in the civil rights movement was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of montgomery Alabama. -
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SCLC
A african american christian leadership for blacks only. -
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Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.They were surrounded by military men going to school everyday. -
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U of Alabama integration
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama -
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March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington was held in Washington D.C.