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Org. to pursue s.e.e.p, rights
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a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States.
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prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry.
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abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces.
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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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advance the cause of civil rights in America but in a non-violent manner.
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a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina,
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nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
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establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee.
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were brutally attacked by violent, well-armed and organized mobs of Klansmen and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala.
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public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
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Death of JFK
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Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi
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an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving.
