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Little Rock 9 was a group of 9 African American students who had strived for an education at the Little Rock high school in 1957. They had went through countless events of violence by the white people. While they had encountered violence, that didn’t stop them from fighting for what they wanted. -
Brown v. Board of education was a landmark decision made by the U.S Supreme Court. This decision decided that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Emmet Till was a fourteen year old boy who had been murdered on August of 1955. Emmet had been abducted, tortured, and then killed. After being accused of offending a white woman, he had been killed due to the racial injustice at the time. -
The bus boycott was a social protest against the policy of racial segregation amongst the whites and the colored people. Rosa Parks had fought for her spot on the bus rather than giving it up, which had caused outrage amongst people. She was arrested, and the people knew this was wrong, so they had fought for her with various protests. -
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. This organization originated in Atlanta, Georgia. This conference was also very closely related to Martin Luther King Jr. as he had helped. -
The Greensboro 4 were 4 African Americans that were involved in several non-violent protests. The protests had resulted in the F.W Woolworth Company department store chain to remove their policies of racial segregation. This was a curucial part in the civil rights movement as well. These four people had also gotten many other people to participate in several non violent strikes along with them. -
A young group of students that created their own tactics to enforce their rights in a nonviolent manner. This group contained the second half of the freedom riders. This group had also been a part of the March of Selma. -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions. -
This March had taken place to protect and fight for the civil and economic rights of the African Americans. 250,000 people had showed up to the event that took place at the Lincoln memorial. Martin Luther King Jr. was the last person to speak at the event with his, “I Have a Dream,” speech. This helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
This act passed the law of not being able to refuse service to African Americans. This had forbid employers and labor unions to discriminate any person regardless of race, religion, sex, phyiscal disability, or age in job related matters. This act prohibits discrimination. -
This March contained 600 students to March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in order to obtain the right to vote. They had walked for 54 miles, however they were stopped at the bridge. LBJ ordered the passage of 1965 voting rights law. The second March took place of March 21-24th and contained 25,000 people including Martin Luther King Jr. -
After all of the continuous protests and fights for their rights, African Americans had achieved the right to vote. This law passed a law exclaiming that there will be no racial discrimination when voting. This granted all people of color to vote.