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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 to keep the races separate- segregation laws, blacks and whites- separate schools, and own sections in restaurants

Jim crow - Purpose: keep the races separated, prevent african americans from voting or registering to vote literacy testes, poll taxes

Plessy vs. Ferguson: segregation was lawful, seperate but equal, public facilities would be the same quality for whites and blacks

Brown vs. board of education: allowed for the integration of public schools, thurgood marshall - ncaacp lawyer and future associate justice of the U.S. supreme court argued the case

effects of brown vs board of education: open the door to challenge all segregation laws, it helps to fasten the idea rhat all americans are entitled to equal

rosa parks: refused to give up her seat to a white person on a public bus in montgomery AL, she was arrested, began the montgomery bus boycott

rosa parks 2: segregation on buses was unconstitutional, the ncaacp local news media, and dr rev martin luther king jr came to her defense

Dr. Rev Martin Luther King Jr.: leader of the SCLC, found this group during the montgomery bus boycott, used civil disobedience and non-violent protests to draw attention, influenced my mahatma gandhi

March on Washington: August 28 1963, about 250,000 people joined dr. king on a march to washington dc, during this march he gave his i have a dream speech on the steps of the lincoln memorial

Greensboro, NC: Would not serve afican americans, sit-in at lunch counter, 4 african american college students and others joined in, items thrown and spilled on them