intro to Civil Rights

in 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in this famous court case that segregation laws did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment as long as the facilities made available to both races were roughly equal.

• Plessy v Fergouson

• Brown v Board of Education

This famous court case in 1954 said, ‘separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently [by nature] unequal. Therefore, overturned the previous court decision from 1896.

• Brown v Board of education

• Plessy v Fergouson

On December 1st, 1955 this person refused to give up a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

This person was chosen to lead the Montgomery bus boycott.

• John F. Kennedy

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King

• Rosa Parks

Protected by armed soldiers, army jeeps, and helicopters, the nine African American students, who came to be known as the this, finally walked in the front door of Central High School.

• NAACP Jr.'s

• Central 9

• Little Rock 9

A form of peaceful protest in which people occupied seats in a segregated facility

• stand in

• sit in

• riot

• illegal loitering

This person said a famous speech at the steps of Lincoln monument in DC.

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King

• John F. Kennedy

This person urged blacks to be proud of their blackness and their African roots. He told them to see themselves with their “own eyes, not the white man's.” He said that African Americans would never gain respect by depending on whites for jobs and protection.

• Rosa Parks

• John F. Kennedy

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King