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Plessy v. Ferguson
Speparate but equal -
NAACP
NAACP was formed in 1909 and was made for the practice of lynching -
Desegregation of Military
President signs executive order so they can be set equal -
Boston Busing
Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. They separated students by race. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Linda Brown had to walk a mile to school, instead of being able to go to the school just seven blocks away (an all whites school.)v desegregation of schools. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white man, and made headlines -
Emmett Till
A black kid who got killed for calling a white woman 'baby' -
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Emmett Till was killed for calling a white girl 'baby' and Rosa Parks refused to give up a bus seat to a white man. desegreagation of mont. buses -
Brown vs. Board of Education II
All schools were desegregated (schools only) -
Little Rock 9
Blacks tried to go to an all white college in the south, they standed up for desegregation, and they broke the black barrier/wall. -
Sit-Ins
Seats in restaurants where only white people could sit in, but blacks stood up against racism, and sat in all of them instead. desegregation of resturants -
Freedom Riders
Black and white riders who rode a bus around America, and stood up for equality. May 4th desegregation for federalism and buses -
James Meredith
Victory for integration and federalism. -
Birmingham
Civil Rights bill (the thing that came out of it) They hosed down blacks with fire hydrant hoses, and tortured many blacks (and there was a lot of police brutality one of the worst.)) The blacks (and some white) stood up for desegregation. -
March on Washington
For desegregation -
Martin Luther King JR
He was a black activist who gave his famous I have a dream" speech about equality and encouraged many blacks (and even whites) He was assassinated by a white man while he was standing on the balcony of a hotel. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Went against Discrimination against race, color, religion, gender or origin. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
1,200 new voters registered -
Malcolm X
An activist who wanted blacks to overrule the whites. -
March from Selma
Voting rights act in Alabama -
24th Amendment
African Americans to poll tax
