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This court case upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States
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This court case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
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This was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization
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Nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
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Primarily a voting rights bill that was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress
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African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina
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The case overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites only".
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A series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.
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An African-American man named James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi
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A movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans
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The march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held in Washington DC
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Prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials
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A volunteer campaign in the United States launched in to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi
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A landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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They wanted to register black voters in the south and protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities
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He was assassinated in Washington Heights, New York City, NY
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A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
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A revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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A legislation that made equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or national origin and made it a crime to “by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone by reason of their race, color, religion, or national origin.
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He was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election.
