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U.S. civil rights organization that played a huge role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Brown v. Board of Education was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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Emmett Louis Till was an African American who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 for supposedly flirting with a white woman.
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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white man, so she was arrested. As a result, African Americans refused to ride the bus for over a year. (Until December 20, 1956)
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African American civil rights organization. It is associated with MLK and played a huge role in the Civil Rights Movement
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A Civil Rights organization which consistedof students who wanted to gain equality. The organization is famous for the Sit-In Movement.
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The Letter from Birmingham Jail is an letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr to a fellow clergyman. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.
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A speech delivered by Martin Luther King in which he calls for an end to racism and civil rights. It was delivered to civil rights supporters. The speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement
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The bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four deaths occurred as a result of the bombing
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The 24th amendment was important to the Civil Rights Movement as it ended mandatory poll taxes that prevented many African Americans.
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It made racial discrimination illegal in places of public accommodation and it prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, national origin,
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Malcolm X was assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.
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State troopers violently attacked the peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights.
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It was signed by President Lyndon Johnson to overcome barriers that prevented African Americans from voting under the 15th Amendment.
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It prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, and national origin by those organizations receiving federal contracts and subcontracts. Also, there was to be equal opportunity for women and minorities.
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He was a Trinidadian American revolutionary active in the Civil Rights Movement. He was a national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe. He is credited with popularizing the term "Black Power."
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It was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States which used more violent and confrontational strategies to achieve racial equality.
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MLK was killed by a single shot by James Earl Ray which struck his face and neck. He was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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It prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
