1. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 do?
Outlawed segregation in all public facilities in the United States

2. Plessy vs. Ferguson case
The court upheld Louisiana's “separate but equal” segregation laws
Basically legalizes segregation in 1896

3. How World War II led to Civil Rights Movement
Opened up job opportunities for African Americans in the U.S.
Black soldiers returning home ready to fight for increased freedom & an end to discrimination
Civil rights groups campaign for equal rights during the war
A. Philip Randolph

4. Brown vs. the Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP argued the case
Segregation is unconstitutional and illegal
Brown overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson
Thurgood Marshall

5. Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Improvement Association
Organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks

7. Little Rock Crisis
Eisenhower Placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in troops to force the integration of Little Rock Central High School

8. SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King, Jr. was its president
Carry out non-violent protests and to crusade against racism

9. SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee Desegregated lunch counters in the south through sit ins