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An interracial club called the NAACP was created to help African Americans' rights and fight against racial injustice. -
Nine young black boys were accused of assaulting two white women near Scottsboro, Alabama. It led to the court establishing civil rights. -
He played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first African American to play, sending a great message for civil rights. -
A court case talked about public school segregation and made it illegal. It officially ended racial segregation. -
Roy Bryant and J.W. Millam beat Emmet Till up and shot him. It got activists to fight for racial equality. -
No African Americans rode the bus in Montgomery in a nonviolent protest against segregation on buses, and it was the first protest against segregation that was successful. -
Nine African American teenagers joined Little Rock Central High School. It showed the struggles of racial discrimination. -
Ruby Bridges, an African American, attended William Frantz Elementary School to integrate it. It symbolized the fight for racial equality -
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a note responding to 8 white guys saying that his protest was dumb and that he should have waited. He defended nonviolent protests for civil rights and said that black men would have freedom. -
People were no longer allowed to discriminate against people for their gender, race, color religion,
or national origin. It helped the civil rights movement a lot. -
He got shot while performing at the Audubon Ballroom. Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Khalil Islam, and Thomas Hagan were charged with the murder. It inspired the Black Power movement. -
Huey Newton created this activist club to call off racism. More specifically, police brutality to African Americans. Their goal was liberating and empowering people of color, showing that times were changing and black people were gaining power. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated him, and he became the first black Supreme Court Justice, sending a message about blacks being in power. -
James Earl Ray shot him while he was near a balcony at the Loraine Motel. -
He beat John McCain for president with 365 votes and became president. He heavily enforced civil rights laws and supported movements that protect people from discrimination.