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upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities
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bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans
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a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are me
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civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement
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President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services
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widely regarded as the second most influential leader of the Nation of Islam after Elijah Muhammad
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Linda Brown, 2nd grader. ended public school segregation. 9-0 rulling
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14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman
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political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
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nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School (white school)
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African-American civil rights organization
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major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s
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civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions
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public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963
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Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963
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or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign to regester as many african american voters as they can
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outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin
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Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles
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shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.
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Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students
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the jury acquitted three of the officers but could not agree on one of the charges against Powell
