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a Trinidadian-American political activist best known for leading the civil rights group SNCC in the 1960s.
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U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement
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Supreme Court ruled that desegregation in schools was not allowed.
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African AMerican teenaged who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 for reportedly flirting with a white woman.
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Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
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African Americans boycotted the public busses in Montgomery, Alamaba in order to acheieve integrated buses.
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African American civil rights organization whose first president was Martin Luther King.
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THis was a letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while in jail in repsonse to a newspaper article that had been written about him criticizing his ways.
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"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
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an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax
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civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally
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around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. State troopers violently attacked the peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights.
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aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment
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prohibits federal contractors and federally-assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, who do over $10,000 in Government business in one year from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982
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James Earl Ray shot and killed King in Memphis
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prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
