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group to fight racism and violence against all people of color in the United States. stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -
nine African American teenagers were accused of raping two white women aboard a Southern Railroad freight train in northern Alabama. -
Jackie Robinson joins the MLB -
The Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional -
Ilam, who were armed, went to Till's great-uncle's house and abducted Till, age 14. They beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, Till's mutilated and bloated body was discovered and retrieved from the river. -
It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States.the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for her refusal to surrender her seat to a white person -
Little Rock Nine" to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School -
She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis -
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail while he was imprisoned for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations in Alabama in 1963. The Letter from Birmingham Jail explains why MLK believed people had a responsibility to follow just laws and a duty to break unjust ones.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. -
Thomas Hagan killed Malcolm x -
It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. -
The Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. Marshall was no stranger to the Senate or the Supreme Court at the time. -
James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The First African American president.