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Rosa Parks was a civil rights leader who was put in jail because she didn't want to give up her seat. N.D. Nixon bailed her out of jail joined by white friends -
February 1, 1960, four friends sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro. That may not sound like a legendary moment, but it was. The four people were African American, and they sat where African Americans weren't allowed to sit. They did this to take a stand against segregation. -
On September 30, 1962, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals students and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school -
in a suburban neighborhood of Jackson, Mississippi. A 37-year-old civil rights activist named Medgar Evers had just come home after a meeting of the NAACP. As he began the short walk up to his single-story rambler, the bullet struck Evers in the back. -
The violent blast ripped through the wall, killing four African-American girls on the other side and injuring more than 20 inside the church. It was a clear act of racial hatred -
freedom summer also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi -
Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, his proposal culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law just a few hours after it was passed by Congress on July 2, 1964. The act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels -
were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense B.P.P. was founded in October 1966 in Oakland California by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale who met at Merritt College in Oakland It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism socialism and armed self-defense particularly against police brutality -
Martin Luther King Jr was a Christian minister activist and political philosopher and was the most prominent leaders. Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing outside on a balcony on the second floor at Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee