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Plessy v. Ferguson
Determined seperate but equal. Legalized racism. -
NAACP
Fought to end segregation. -
Race Riots
the Chicago Race Riot. Thes riots were caused by unequal rights. -
Thurgood Marshall
leader of an organization focused on challenging the most glaring inequalities of segregated public education. -
The Sit-ins
African-American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave before they were served. -
Brown v Board of Education
Illegalizeed segregation in schools. This started the momentum to unsegregate other aspects of everyday lives. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Movement in the African American community to combat racial segregation on busses by the means of boycotting. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks took a seat in the front row "colored" section of the bus. She was then arressted for not moving when told to do so. -
Dr. Martin Luther King jr.
His passionate speech brought people to their feet and filled the audience with a sense of mission. Finally in 1956, the supreme court outlawed bus segregation. -
Little Rock School Integration
9 African American students had volunteered to integrate Little Rock's central highschool as the first step in Blossom's plan. -
Freedom Rides
Rode on buses hoping to provoke violent reactions that would convince the Kennedy administration to enforce the law. -
March on Birmingham, Alabama
African-Americans marched through Birmingham to try to desegregate the public town. -
March on Washington
This march was intended to persuade congress to pass the civil rights bill. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. -
Malcolm X
Black Islamic minister that spoke for freedom. He also advocated armed self defense. -
The 24th Amendment
Prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act eliminated the so-called literacy test that had disqualified many voters. -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
3,000 marchers set out for Montgomery with federal protection. It soon grew to an army of 25,000. -
Black Panther Party
A political party founded to fight brutality in the ghetto. Believed that African Americans should be exempt from military service because an unfair amount of black youths had been drafted to serve in Vietnam. -
De jure vs. De fact segregation
De facto segregation was segregation that exists by practice and custom. De jure seregation was segregation by law.
