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14th Amendment
This amendment made sure that everyone who was charged with a crime received a fair trial. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
A very important racial court case that ruled in favor of segregation. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" -
Race Riots in Chicago
a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 1919 and ended on August 3. During the riot, thirty-eight people died and over five hundred were injured. It was started over racial tension in the city. -
Executive Order 9981
by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. The first recognized movement of civil rights. -
Brown v. Board of Education
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 -
Emmett Till Lynching
Emmett Till was accused of flirting with a white woman and was lynched for it. This flirting never happened and the lynching was because of racism. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. Blacks protested to get equal transportation rights -
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
A African American civil rights organization. Martin Luther King Jr. played a major part in this organizations creation and fueled the movement in general. -
Little Rock Central High School
(Little Rock Nine) The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. They were in a all white school in Arkansas and wanted equal education. They were discriminated and treated poorly. -
North Carolina Sit In by 4 Black Students
4 Black students sit in on a "whites only" restaurant and are not given food. They are denied service. They stay there and protest and more blacks join. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States equality and anti-segregation laws that were not being put in action. -
James Meredith
James Howard Meredith is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. He published multiple books regarding equality in the United States and showed how blacks were being treated. -
Letters from Birmingham Jail (MLK)
an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. It was written by MLK while he was in jail -
University of Alabama
Facing federalized Alabama National Guard troops, Alabama Governor George Wallace ends his blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African American students to enroll. The school is desegregated. -
I Have A Dream Speech
"I Have a Dream" is a 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, in which he calls for an equal society with all people to live together peacefully. -
Birmingham Bombing
An act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Racist white terrorists bombed a black church to promote racism in Alabama -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. This was both blacks and whites together. -
Civil Rights Act
This was a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Selma to Montgomery
A march lead by Martin Luther King from Selma Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. This was a 56 long mile trek done to change the views of black rights in America -
Watts Riots
Took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles after a black man was arrested for being suspected of drunk driving. This resulted in a violent riot with over 3,000 arrests and over 30 deaths. -
Executive order 11246
September 24, 1965, established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors. -
Black Panthers
The Black Panther movement was a radical African American movement that supported the protection of blacks and was against police brutality. They were known to condone violence in order to get this point across. -
1967 Detroit Race Riots
A violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan. It started out as a small altercation but resulted in a widespread outrage of violence and riots. -
MLK Assassination
On April 4 1968, James Earl Ray assassinated MLK while he was standing on the balcony of his hotel. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
The act stated “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin” This meant you could not refuse to sell property to a person because of their race.
