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Plessy V Ferguson
Was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. -
Sweatt V Painter
Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629, was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Brown V Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott, African Americans refused to ride city buses in Alabama, to protest segregated seating. It's regarded as the first large-scale protest against segregation in the U.S. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks’ court hearing and lasted 381 days. The US. Supreme Court ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system, and one of the leaders of the boycott, Martin Luther King Jr. became a national leader of the American civil rights movement. -
"The Southern Manifesto"
The Declaration of Constitutional Principles was a document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places. -
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Little Rock - Central High School
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the “Little Rock Nine” into the school, and they started their first full day of classes on September 25. -
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Greensboro Sit in
On February 1, 1960, the four students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, where the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites. Denied service, the four young men refused to give up their seats. Eventually the protested ended and Woolworth's provided service to blacks. -
SNCC
The group played a large part in the Freedom Rides aimed at desegregating buses and in the marches organized by King and SCLC. H. Rap Brown, said “Violence is as American as cherry pie.” But the fires and disorders that followed in the summer of 1967 led to Brown’s arrest for incitement to riot, and SNCC disbanded shortly. -
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Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and many years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the US -
Letter from a Birmingham jail
The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts. -
Medger Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to end segregation at the University of Mississippi and to enact social justice and voting rights. He was murdered by a segregationist. -
March on Washington
March by MLK for freedom and jobs. -
Bombing of Birmingham church
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at a African American church in Birmingham, Alabama -
Twenty Fourth Amendment
United States Constitution doesn't allow both Congress and the states from taking poll taxes on people.The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
It was an attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act passed
US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Malcolm X assassinated
One week after his home was firebombed, Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally of his organization in New York City. -
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Selma to Montgomery march
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act approved
This act was signed into law on by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices in southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Black Panthers
African American revolutionary party, founded in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighbourhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. -
James Meredith
James H. Meredith, who in 1962 became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, was shot by a sniper shortly after beginning a lone civil rights march through the South. The “March Against Fear,” Meredith had been walking from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, in an attempt to get voter registration by African Americans in the South. -
MLK assassinated
James Earl Ray was a confirmed racist and small-time criminal, Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King in Memphis and confessed to the crime the following March.
