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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells
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Designed to improve to the african american peoples condition in the united states
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Prohibits racial discrimination in the military
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Designed to extend powers and responsibilities of U.S. intelligence agencies and direct the leaders of U.S. federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA requests for information.
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The policy "separate but equal" is applied
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The "Greensboro 4" begin their own protests by organizing Sit ins
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Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.
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James Morris Lawson, Jr. is an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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James bevel calls for a march on Selma
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A school that was forcefully desegragated
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Kennedy and Nixon debate for the position of president
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The Freedom riders are attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
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M.L.K deliver his famous speech in Washington d.c, the speech gained international recognition and helped the civil rights movement
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President John F Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
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Three civil rights activists were abducted and murdered in Mississippi
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. Their overall goal was to be allowed to vote
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After what some believed an unfair use of force by police a riot ensued
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huey was a founder if the black panther party, he was killed 1989
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A demonstration led by M.L.K, the protester were beaten with batons and sprayed with fire hoses
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Martin Luther King was killed by James Earl Ray
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Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy's brother, was assassinated because of his foreign policies.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation
