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Supreme Court case about Jim Crow railroad cars in Louisiana; the Court decided by 7 to 1 that legislation could not overcome racial attitudes, and that it was constitutional to have "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites.
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Is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by W. E. B.
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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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It 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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Is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr
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It was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
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Established a Civil Rights Commission, but had little real effect and was mostly symbolic
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This 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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They were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States
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It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University
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A group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, 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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Black protest regarding the segregation of schools, restaurants, bathrooms and work buildings.
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200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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Prohibted any poll tax in elections for federal officials
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This was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississsippi
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This was 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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Prominent figure in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism
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Malcolm X was shot before he was about to deliver a speech about his new organization called the Organization of Afro-American Unity
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The main focus of its efforts was to register black voters in the South
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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting
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The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.
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It stopped the discrimination of housing based on race, color, religion, or national origin.
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Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
