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CIVIL RIGHTS WEBQUEST. Kayla Conger. Lindsey Edwards. PLESSY v. FERGUSON. The Plessy v. Ferguson Case in 1896 ruled that it was ok for blacks and whites to be “separate but equal”. JIM CROW LAWS.
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CIVIL RIGHTS WEBQUEST Kayla Conger Lindsey Edwards
PLESSY v. FERGUSON The Plessy v. Ferguson Case in 1896 ruled that it was ok for blacks and whites to be “separate but equal”.
JIM CROW LAWS After the American Civil War most states in the South passed anti-African American laws known as Jim Crow laws. The laws discriminated against African Americans by attendance in public schools and the use of public facilities. Trains and buses were also segregated and in many states marriage between whites and African American people was illegal.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. He also helped to establish the National Negro Business League.
W. E. B. DUBOIS Scholar and political activist W.E.B. Du Bois helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). DuBois attended Harvard University and in 1895 became the first African-American to receive a doctorate from the school.
MARCUS GARVEY Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association which was designed “to promote the spirit of race pride.” Convinced that blacks could not secure their rights in countries where they were a minority race, he urged a “back to Africa” movement.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND DESEGREGATION OF MILITARY President Truman decided to desegregate the United States Armed Forces by executive order. The armed services marched forward and implemented the desegregation policy. By the end of the Korean War in 1953, the U.S. military was almost completely desegregated.
BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION In 1951, the famous Brown v. Board of Education Lawsuit began. The Brown case finally ended in 1954 in favor of Linda Brown. The Supreme Court judges vote was 9-0.
MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT For about a year, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was in effect. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal is unconstitutional.
FREEDOM SUMMER Freedom Summer (also known as the Mississippi Summer Project) was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters. Freedom summer lasted 10 weeks.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (KEY BELIEFS) Martin Luther King Jr. was a black Christian who believed that god made black and white people all equally. His beliefs for civil rights was philosophy and commitment to the method of nonviolent resistance.
"I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this speech on August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Washington, D.C. Lincoln Memorial during the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
FREEDOM RIDES The Freedom Rides where bus trips made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
THE LITTLE ROCK NINE The Little Rock Nine, as they later came to be called, were the first black teenagers to attend all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. These remarkable young African-American students challenged segregation in the deep South and won.
MALCOLM X Malcolm X was black-rights activist and religious leader to Muslims. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, he announced his conversion to orthodox Islam and his new belief that there could be brotherhood between black and white.
BLACK PANTHERS A militant black American organization Black Panther party active in the 1960s and early 1970s, formed to work for the advancement of the rights of blacks, often by radical means.
S.N.C.C. SNCC "Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee" was a U.S. civil-rights organization formed by students and active esp. during the 1960s, whose aim was to achieve political and economic equality for blacks through local and regional action groups.
GREENSBORO FOUR On Feb. 1, 1960 four black freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond, took seats at the segregated lunch counter of F. W. Woolworth's in Greensboro, N.C. Finally in July, Woolworth's integrated all of its stores. The four have become icons of the civil rights movement.
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT The Civil Rights Act was a movement to get all whites and blacks together and outlaw segregation amongst all. Desegregation became an every day thing after the act. Everything was integrated after a lot of fighting and changes.
VOTING RIGHTS ACT The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices were responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States. The Act prohibited states from imposing any voting requirements such as literacy tests and poll taxes.
THE 24 AMMENTMENT th On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
WATTS RIOTS - 1965 The Watts Riots of 1965 was a large-scale race riot that lasted 5 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the riot, 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured, and 3,952 arrested.
SWANN v. CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION - 1971 The Supreme Court ruled that busing students would solve racial imbalance among schools. This was done to ensure the schools would be properly integrated and that all students would receive equal educational opportunities regardless of their race.
