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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws. -
NAACP
a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey. -
Rosa Parks
one day Rosa parks was sitting in a bus and a white person told her to move and she refused and they called the cops and she was arrested. -
Martin luther king jr
American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights -
Little Rock 9
The little rock nine happen because they wanted to desegregate central high in little rock, Arkansas . this is a great event that happened in history. -
Civil rights act
The Civil Rights Act of 1957, enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation passed by Congress in the United States since the 1866 and 1875 Acts. -
24th Amendment
24th amendment was important to the Civil Rights Movement as it ended mandatory poll taxes that prevented many African Americans. -
Voting rights
Lyndon B Johnson was the 36th American President who served in office from November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969. One of the important events during his presidency was the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson became the first black man to play major league baseball in the twentieth century when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
