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was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.
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Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott 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 Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service.
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She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States,
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Battle of Oxford, was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 30, 1962
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The promise to stop segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation.
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The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws
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Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi and the state's field secretary of the NAACP
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Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellow friends was pressuring JFK administration on he civil rights bill in Congress.
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was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama,
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A project by ( CORE) and the student non violent coordination for blacks to vote.
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The right for citizens of the united states to vote in any primary or other election.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is 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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for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America.
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery
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President Lyndon B. Johnson aimed to overcome segregation and create levels for African American to Vote
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An African American Motorist was pulled over for reckless driving.
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Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice
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Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968
