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Founded by 6 Confederate veterans in Tennessee in 1866. Violent terrorist organization whose goals were to destroy Republican Party, throw out Reconstruction governments, and aid planter class in controlling laborers. Used fear, violence, brutality.
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provided equal protection under the law
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in response to lynchings and riots in 1909.
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Black nationalist fraternal organization. Founded by Marcus Garvey
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Malcolm X was a civil rights leader who believed in achieving equality through any means, even violence. He was part of the Nation of Islam.
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Jackie Robinson reached a milestone in the civil rights movement by becoming the first black baseball player.
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference dates back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Leaders of the civil rights movement met to organize specific movements.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, was formed in 1960 to help students take part in nonviolent acts to stop segregation.
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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Major of Alabama and sprayed people with hoses and had attack dogs
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill
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Supreme court chief justice that convinced his fellow justices to declare unanimously that segregated public schools were inherently unequal
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
