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Leading activist organizations in the early years of the early civil rights movement.
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Ended legal segregation in public schools.
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Emitt Till was brutally murdered at 14 years old for flirting at a white woman.
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Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man, which sparked the bus boycott, where african americans stopped using public transportation.
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Allowed younger blacks a voice in the Civil Rights Movement.
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While imprisoned in Birmingham Jail MLK wrote a long hand written letter in response to the concern and caution issued by white religious leaders in the South.
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Civil Rights Speech given by MLK for a call on freedom and jobs. It was very empowering and uplifiting for African Americans.
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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism.
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The 24th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America abolished the poll tax for all federal elections.
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Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a speech in New York.
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Civil rights protesters marched to the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they were stopped by police officers who then beat them with billy clubs and sprayed them with tear gas, pushing them back to the town of Selma.
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Overcame legal barriers that state and local governments had, that prevented African Americans from voting.
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Affirmative action guidlines for federal contractors race, color, etc..
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Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement.
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Revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization.
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Prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
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Was shot and killed while standing on the motel rooftop in Memphis, Tennessee.
