Civil Rights

African American lawyer who led the legal challenge against segregation

• Thurgood Marshall

• Earl Warren

• John Kennedy

• Roger B. Taney

Supreme Court cases in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Munn V. Illinois

• Dred Scott. V. Sanford

Woman who helped start Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Rosa Parks

• Fannie Lou Hamer

• Maya Angelou

• Linda Brown

Peaceful leader of the Civil Rights Movement

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcom X

• James Meredith

• Stokely Carmichael

Civil rights organization created by MLK, ministers, and civil rights leaders

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Congress on Racial Equality

Civil rights organization formed by students

• Student Non violent Coordiating Committee

• Student Congress on Racial Equality

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Council of Student Advocates

protest tactic in which blacks occupied whites only seats at lunch counters

• Sit In

• March

• Radical Protest

• Core

civil rights activists who tried to end segregation on national buses

• Freedom Riders

• Council of Federated Organizations

• Leadership Federation of Colored Citizens

• Freedom Fighters

African American who won enrollment to the all white University of Mississippi

• James Meredith

• Stokely Carmichael

• Linda Brown

• Elizabeth Eckford

law that outlawed ration discrimination

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Civil Rights act of 1968

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Dejure Segregation