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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Sixteeth Street Baptist Church
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama which is frequented predominately by African Americans. -
Founding of NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States -
Escape of Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the "Moses of her people." Over the course of 10 years, and at great personal risk, she led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie was an American baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. -
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Jackie Robbinson
Jackie Robinson was an American baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Jackie broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. As the first major league team to play a black man since the 1880s, the Dodgers ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. -
Emmett Till murder
Emmett Till was an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Park's bus boycott
More on Rosa ParksOn December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled -
Little Rock 9
Little Rock Nine was a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis,which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower. -
Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia was a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. -
African American Civil Rights Movement
The African-American Civil Rights Movement encompasses social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them.
