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Amendments: 13th - Ends Slavery

14th - Equal protection under the law, and citizenship for former slaves.

15th - Right to Vote

Jim Crow Laws: Laws- keep the races separate segregation laws.

Blacks & Whites - separate schools, & own sections in restaurants/ public places.

Jim Crow - Purpose: Keep the races separated

Intimidate African-Americans true in the area of voting.

Prevent African-Americans from voting or registering to vote

Literacy tests
Poll taxes

Plessy v. Ferguson: Established the idea that segregation was lawful

Established the doctrine of "separate but equal"

Public facilitates would be the same quality for whites & blacks

Brown v. Board of Education: Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson -doctrine of "separate but equal"

Allowed for the integration of public schools

Thurgood Marshall - NAACP lawyer & future associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, argued the case.

Effect of Brown v. Board of Education: Open the door to challenge all segregation laws

It help to foster the idea that all Americans are entitled to equal access

Rosa Parks: Refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white person in Montgomery, Al

She was arrested

Began the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -African-Americans refused to ride public buses

Rosa Parks - II: African-American churches, the NAACP, local news media, and Dr.Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to her defense

A federal court ruled the Alabama law to be unconstitutional

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Found this is group during the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Used civil disobedience and non-violent protests to draw attention

Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi

March on Washington: August 28, 1963, about 250,000 people joined Dr. King on a march to Washington D.C. - steps of Lincoln Memorial
Result: government started to create new civil rights laws
During this march - gave his "I Have a Dream" speech

Greensboro, NC: Would not serve African Americans

Sit-in at a lunch counter

4 African American college student & others joined in

Abused - items thrown and spilled on them

Effective protest tactic