Mr. D Civil rights

In this 1896 Supreme Court case ruling, separation of races was legal. Separate, but equal was ok.

• Homer vs Marshall

• Plessy vs Ferguson

• US vs Reese

• Brown Vs Board of Education

These were used to enforce segregation from the late 1870's through the 1960's

• JIm Crow laws

• Fair Deal programs

• 15th amendments

• NAACP

This Civil rights leader did not fully agree with methods Dr. King was using and believed in a more agressive approach. However he was assassinated in 1965

• Malcolm X

• Plessy vs Fregusion

• NAACP

• US vs Reese

As an Attorney, he challenged segregation in the courts

• Martin Luther King

• Thurgood Marshall

• JIm Zerg

• Brown vs Board of Education

This happened after Rosa Parks was arrested

• Brown vs Board of Education

• Sit-inns

• NAACP

• Montgomery bus boycott

This group was formed by mostly young people (black & White) to fight segregation and discrimination

• SNCC

• SCLC

• Sit-inns

• NAACP

This person would become the leader of civil rights movement

• Thrugood Marshall

• WEB DeBuis

• Martin Luther King JR

• Rosa Parks

This Supreme Court decision over turned Plessy vs Fergson

• Brown vs Board of Education

• Dred Scott vs Sanford

• Marbary vs Madison

• Sneck vs the US

this group tested the Brown vs Board of Education outcome by attending an all white high school.

• freedom riders

• Little Rock 9

• Greensboro 4

• SNCC

This group rode in to south on buses, to test segregation laws, they were met with harsh resistance.

• Patriot Party

• Freedom lovers

• Freedom riders

• SCLC