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Thoreau : July 12, 1817,
was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic -
Gandhi
Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
"seperate but equal" --the legal and did not violate the fourteenth amendment -
Rosa Parks February 4, 1913,
A woman a part of the NAACP who didn't give up her spot on the bus for a white man going to jail for her rights -
Malcom X May 19, 1925
was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr January 15, 1929,
was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement -
Emmett Till
A little boy who got killed by two white man for saying bye cutie to a white female girl -
Thurgood Marshall
1954 won he Brown vs Board of Education regarding desegregation in schools -
Little Rock School of Education of Topeka.
9 black students enroll in an all white school -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
School Desegration -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks takes front seat on bus - starts a 381 day bus boycott while she is in trial -
The sit-ins
4 black students sit for lunch at counter in Woolworth's Store -
Freedom Rides
Segregation was illegal with interstate facilities and terminals for travel ex: bus, train -
March on Washington
200,000 people march for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his speech "I have a Dream" -
March on Birmingham Alabama
the beginning of the lunch-counter sit-ins -
De jure vs. De facto segregation
Defact segregation by social customs -
24th amendment
prohibits poll tax in elections -
March from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
people marched over blacks right to vote -
Race Riots-Watts
a black motorist was pulled over by a white cop for a DUI, arrested and people protested -
Voting Rights act of 1965
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or native origin -
Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party (BPP) for Self-Defense was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States -
National Association for the Advancement of colored PeopleNAACP
NAACP is an organization that protects the black people and their rights
