Civil Rights

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Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled:

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segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

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Outlawed discrimination in employment, education, voter registration, and public facilities.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Court case that allowed "Separate-but-equal" in 1896.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Activist who talked about black independence “by any means necessary;” including the use of violence.

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Malcolm X

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Who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?

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Rosa Parks

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Leader of the Civil Rights Movement & gave his "I Have a Dream" speech during the march on Washington D.C. in 1963.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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People who do something to bring about political or social change.

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activist

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social separation of the races

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segregation

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A form of nonviolent protest where people stop using a service or buying a particular product? example: people stopped using Montgomery Public Buses

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boycott