1. Road to voting rights
Makenzie Hellyer

2. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
* The supreme court decision was a decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal.” * Plessy legitimized the state laws establishing racial segregation in the south, and provided an impetus for further segregation laws.

3. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
* The supreme court declared state laws establishing public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. * Segregated public schools faced “massive resistance” across the south, the ruling provided irresistible moral authority to the drive for legal equality. * There were many protests, because white people didn’t want there kids to go to school with black kids.

4. Billy Graham
* An American evangelical Christian evangelist, ordained as a Southern Baptist minister. * Bailed Martin Luther King Jr. out of jail. * He allowed African American minister Thomas Kilgore to serve as a member of his New York Crusade’s executive committee.

5. 24th Amendment * Was passed January 23, 1964
* Prohibits any poll taxes in elections for federal officials.

6. Websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson
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