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A supreme court landmark case where it was ruled that it was constitutional to have "separate but equal" places for blacks and whites.
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NNACP stands for The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which is a civil rights organization in the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark Supreme Court case. the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
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The Montgomery bus boycott was a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery.
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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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Was primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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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 that was whites only
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African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, who created concepts of race pride and black nationalism
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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was an important organization of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States
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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 SCLC to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans
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A political rally for Jobs and Freedom.
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United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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Freedom Summer, 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.
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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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Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally
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three protest marches along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.
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It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states
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A revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization
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defines housing discrimination as the refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin.
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WAs fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room
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On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
