Civil Rights Review

segregation =

• separate

• togetherness

• equal

Emmett Till

• 1st African American to vote

• killed for whistling at a white woman

• Supreme Court Judge

Made segregation in schools illegal.

• Plessy vs Ferguson

• US vs Wainwright

• Brown vs. Board of Education

poll tax, literacy tests, grandfather clause

• kept people from voting

• made voting easier

• helped African American get elected

sit-ins, boycotts, marches

• forms of non-violent protests

• form of violent protests

Civil disobedience =

• disobeying unjust laws

• violent protests

• barrier to voting

Was arrested for not giving up a seat to a white person on a segregated bus.

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks

African American Supreme Court Judge

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Malcolm X

1964, prohibits discrimination

• Voting Rights Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Equal Protection Clause

got rid of barriers to voting for African Americans

• Civil Rights Act

• Equal Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act