Jim Crow
legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to Plessy vs. Feguson, in which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
"Separate but Equal"
Widely regarded as the leader of the principle of nonviolent civil disobedience during the civil rights movement
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Plessy vs Ferguson
1896
the term for social rules and expectations demanding how African Americans and whites would interact in Jim Crow America, directly translating to "of custom"
Baltimore lawyer known for his work arguing for the desegregation of public schools in Brown v Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
Brown v Board
1954
The term for "legal" Jim Crow laws, directly translating to "of the law"
"De Jurie"
Chairman of the SNCC and later representative of Georgia. Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
John Lewis
13th Amendment
1865
The act of bringing into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution. AKA the process of desegregating schools and public facilities.
Integration
This artist created more than 50 paintings retelling the stories of Black Americans who migrated to northern cities like Chicago, New York, and Detroit during the Great Migration
Jacob Lawrence
14th Amendment
1868
13th and 14th
This performer invented the "swivel hips" dance move 35 years before Elvis strutted it on the stage
Earl "Snakehips" Tucker
15th amendment
1870