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plessy vs. ferguson
Louisiana passed a law that said the railroads had to be equal but separate. the supreme court ruled that the law didn't violate the 14th amendment. -
the sit-ins
African American protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served. -
National Association for the Advancements of Colored People (NAACP)
They wanted nothing but equal rights. in the little rick school integration they helped call out the students to get justice. They helped in every way that they could. -
brown vs. board of education of topeka
A all white school had denied Linda's admission. This was against the against the 14th amendment. -
Thurgood Marshall
Him and the NAACP lawyers won a lot of cases like the Plessy vs. Ferguson -
Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and she ended up getting arrested. Once the news got out they decided to boycott the buses. The supreme court outlawed the segregation of buses. -
Rosa Parks
She protested a lot. was NAACP officer who fought for equal rights. -
emmett till
this made African American want the violence to stop and they wanted to get justice and want justice -
little rack school integration
Nine African Americans got enrolled into the highschool. The government had ordered National guards to turn them away. A judge ordered him to let him. The teens came to the school and the whites tried to attack them. Congress passed a civil rights act. -
freedom rides
they rode the bus to test the seating. they hoped that there would be some violence to convince Kennedy to enforce the law -
march on Birmingham
they wanted to racial violence to stop so they put together a march. they marched to the police and got cleared out. they put together another protest and ended segregation. -
march on Washington
President Kennedy promised equal access to all public places and power to school desegregation suits. To get congress to pass the law they put together a march -
de jure vs. de facto segregation
de facto was racial separation by practice and de jure was racial separation by law. African Americans were facing de facto in the north. -
race riots
an encounter between the police and teenagers and someone died and it sparked a race riot -
civil rights act of 1964
a lot of violence was going on. Jfk was assassinated and they passed they act saying that you can't discriminate based on raced, religion, gender, and etc -
Malcolm X
He wanted people to be true to themselves help the people be self aware of things and people got to know the history behind their race. -
24th amendment
there is no poll taxing which is when you had to pay a certain amount of money to vote -
march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
SNCC was helping people get registered for voting. jimmy lee jackson was shot and killed and mlk responded with a protest -
voting rights act of 1965
this eliminated literacy test. this enrolled everyone to vote. -
Black Panther Party
they fought the police but they helped the black people that needed to be helped. this kind of involved Malcolm X
