Background
Made a significant change in the quest for civil rights
Brown v. Board of Education 1954 , Plessy v. Freguson 1896
legal support for segregation especially racial segregation in public education
What is the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
A plan that would effectively enroll African Americans in white schools
What is the Blossom plan
Began in December 1955 ended a year later and is consider the starting point of the African American Civil Rights Movement
The Montgomery Buss Boycott
Expected threats , multiple arrests and possibly violence
The Freedom Riders
The right to vote regardless of race or color
What is the 15th Amendment
A law school case which refused to let African Americans attend the state university's law school
What is the case of Gaines v. Missouri
Organized rallies , brought in guest speakers to promote white supremacy and demand segregation
Capital Citizens' Council (CCC)
On March 2 1955 a 15 year old African American was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white woman
Claudette Colvin
A man of great courage , was a combat soldier in a segregated US army in Europe and was a veteran of civil rights activisim
NAACP Mississippi Field Secretary Medgar Evers
The killing of African Americans by hanging them or burning for alleged crimes
What is white mobs
The final two steps before Brown broke away the "separate but equal" doctrine
What is the case of Sweatt v. Painter 1950 and McLaurin v. Oklahoma state Regents 1950
Were escorted into Central High School by US army
Little Rock Nine
Was arrested for refusing to give up her seat was also the NAACP Secretary and was the main protagonist for working actively for civil rights for two decades
Rosa Parks
Where leaders of the SNCC and organized a second trip of 10 riders
John Lewis and Diane Nash
An organization whose principal goal was to negate Reconstruction , also murdered African Americans and white Americans because they were sympathetic to them
What is the KKK
He became known as "the man who killed Jim Crow"
Charles Hamilton Houston
Sent a telegram to the White House telling the president " If the federal government fail to take a strong positive stand at this time it will set the progress of integration back fifty years"
Martin Luther King Jr
They were the Montgomery civil rights leaders
Abernathy , Nixon , Lewis and MLK
There was a rally lead by 4 people due to the Freedom Riders and Seigenthaler being beaten
Martin Luther King Jr , Fred Shuttlesworth , John Lewis and Ralph Abernathy
Act of race based mob violence from the end 19th century into the 20th century
What is Race riots
Wrote a report that suggested attacking segregation through the court
Nathan Ross Margold
Did not complete the year because she was suspended for throwing chili on two white boy and was expelled for calling a white girl "white trash"
Minnijean Brown
What did Montgomery show
That a united African American community could successfully challenge Jim Crow
What was the specific goal of The Freedom Riders
Integrating interstate travel