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CIVIL RIGHTSGrant Groshek Sergio Reyes Tess Breuch Daniella Raz
Plessey vs. Ferguson
• A good start for gaining civil rights
• Court case in 1896
• “Separate but Equal”
NAACP Founded
• Founded in 1909
• Influenced by Charles Houston Hamilton and W.E.B. Du Bois
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Pushed for the civil rights movement
MLK Jr., Thurgood M., Charles Houston H., W.E.B D., Ben J.
Thurgood Marshall
• African- American NAACP Lawyer
• Attacked the segregation platform
• Became the first black Supreme Court justice
• Defended the “Brown v. Board of Education” court case
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
• Linda Brown is refused acceptance into a school that is supposedly “all-white”
• Case goes as far as the supreme court where Thurgood Marshall defends her
• The case turns out in a victory for Brown
• Monumental moment in history, desegregation in schools.
Little Rock 9• Nine black students who
wished to attend an all white high school
• Gov. of Arkansas sent the national guard to stop them
• President Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect and escort the students
• Desegregated schools
Rosa Parks• Born in 1913• Refused to use colored only facilities• Member of NAACP• Dec. 1, 1955, refused to get up from her seat for a white person
• Boycotted buses, demanded equal treatment
Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Lead by Rosa Parks• Refusal to use buses in
Montgomery as long as they are segregated
• Buses lose revenue, must change laws
Shirley Chisholm
• First African-American woman in the House of Representatives
• Born to immigrant parents
• Attended Brooklyn College and Columbia University
• Shows that black were able to improve their situation
SNCC
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• College students viewed the pace of change as too slow
• Risk being kicked out for the cause
Freedom Rides/ CORE
• Two busses that travelled all across the nation to provoke a violent reaction that would force the Kennedy administration to respond.
• Bus companies did not allow the desegregation in the busses by the members
• Whites got violent as expected and was heard all over the nation
Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Leader of SCLC• Won Nobel Peace Prize in 1964• Said all Americans had to be
freed; “Negroes from the bonds of segregation and shame, whites from the bonds of bigotry and fear.”
• Inspired blacks to nonviolently fight for their rights
March on Washington
• More than 250,000 people included
• Assembled by Lincoln Memorial
• “I Have a Dream” Speech• Monumental event• 2 weeks later,
Birmingham church bombing
• Eventually passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
MLK Cont’d• Assasinated on April 4, 1968• Said “ I’ve seen the promised land. I
may not get there with you, but I want you to know that tonight, we as a people will get to the promised land.” Apr. 3, 1968
• Most influential civil rights activist.
As a result from all these people and organization’s efforts, African-Americans were able to improve their situation as citizens in terms of gaining equal civil rights and opportunities in the United States
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