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plessy v. ferguson
www.quizlet.com
This is a majior case that happened inthe state of Louisiana where the court rulled that segrigation was okay as long as everything was equal. "seprate but equal" -
brown v. board of education
www.ourdocuments.org
A case in where the segregation of public schools became a violation to the 14th amendment and was un constitutinal. -
murdure of emmett till
www.biography.com
Emmett Till was kidnapped beat and shot his head for looking a a white girl the wrong way. -
rosa parks and montgomery boycott
www.ushistory.org
Rosa Parks sat down one day in the white side of the bus and when was asked to moveshe didnt compliy. She was the removed and arrested. Her arrest changed u.s and people stopped riding the bus. -
southern christian leadership conference
www.blackpast.org
This is when 60 black ministers/civil right leaders were meeting in Georgia to decided on the bus boycott and they chose MLK to be the leader. -
Little Rock Nine & Central High School
crdl.usg.edu
This is when 9 black students who wanted to get a better education finally got the right to go to the same school as white people. Most of them dropped out due to bullying but 1 or 2 lasted through senior year. -
greensboro sit-in
www.sitinmovement.org
It was people that were non-violent protesters andwould sit in a segregated area that was for only white people and didnt move and wanted to be surved. -
freedom riders
www.core-online.org
7 black and 6 white people left washington d.c on 2 public busses. An angery mob came and smoked the bus killing and hurting many. They did this to challenge segregation. -
march on washington
www.core-online.org
Protesters came in the numbers of 250,000. They all promoted civil rights and equality. This was then followed by the "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King. -
student nonviolating coordinating committee and freed on summer
www.pbslearningmedia.org
Over 700 students both black andwhite went to mississippi to support the black people to vote. The middle class students helped bring attention the the matter and helped get it fixed. -
civil rights act of 1964
www.crf-usa.org
Proposed by JFK. he knew blacks deserved full-equality and that the discrimination was an emmbarasment to America. This caused for the federal government to act upon segrigation. -
assassination of Malcom X
www.history.com
After a bunch of othere attempts to assassinate Malcom succeded and kill him by firebombing his house. He was shot because he became too powerful. -
voting rights act of 1965
www.ourdocuments.org
Law that was passed during the civil rights movements like literacy test which were used to resrict blacks from voting. Signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson protecting the 15th ammendment. -
assassination of MLK
www.biography.com
James Earl Ray is the man who shot because he was rasist. He was in his motel room where he was shot on the balcony. This had already been planned for months.
