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founded on February 12, 1909 — The NAACP was an organization that had the goal of ensuring the educational, political, and the equality of minority group citizens of States and eliminating racial prejudice. This is important because it eliminated the racial prejudice and other hardships being experienced by African Americans across the nation. -
The goal of the group CORE was to bring racial equality, freedom of religion, gender equality, and social equality. This has importance because by bringing about equality for all of these different things CORE was able to have an impact on the American civil rights movement, and beyond. -
Executive order 9981 was an executive order that banned segregation in the armed forces. -
Established the idea that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. This was important because it eliminated segregation in schools allowing whites and black to go to the same school. -
Emmett Till was a fourteen year old boy who was kidnapped and toutured and lynched in August 28, 1955 — Emmett Till went to visit family in Mississippi and due to flirting with a white woman he was brutally murdered. This is important because it shows the injustice that is facing African Americans and how something as small as flirting with a white woman can have big consequences. -
Arrested for not moving to the back of the bus. -
Blacks boycotted riding the buses due to the arrest of Rosa Parks. This is important because this led to segregation being eliminated on the buses. -
Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American boys who enrolled at an all-white high school in Arkansas. This is important because it integrates the school which is one step closer to African Americans having the same rights as white people. -
founded on January 10, 1957 — The SCLC was an organization that was an offshoot from the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The goal of the SCLC was to redeem the “soul of America” through non-violent protests against segregation. This is important because SCLC was making a great impact on the civil rights movement and how African Americans get equal rights. -
the Greensboro sit-ins were an act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter. This is important because it led to wider sit-in protests that changed laws. -
Medgar Evers was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi 1960’s — Medgar Evers was the first NAACP field officer in Mississippi. He organized voter registration drives, established new local chapters, and helped lead protests to desegregate public places. This is important because he had an impact on the African Americans in Mississippi and made an impact on getting them equal rights. -
- founded in April 1960 — SNCC was a key organization in the American civil rights movement, they led non-violent protests that went against segregation and other forms of racism. This is important because every protest that the SNCC leads gets the African Americans one step closer to equality for all of them.
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Ruby bridges the first day of white school for any African American -
Groups of African American and white civil rights activists who participated in bus rides called Freedom Rides to protest segregation in bus terminals. This is important because it shows the activism taking place to protest that African Americans and whites should have equal rights. -
James Meredith is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and Air force veteran he became popular for civil rights in 1962 -
A movement led by the SCLC its goal was to bring attention to black leaders who were trying to desegregate the South. The importance of this is that if attention is brought to these black leaders, more people will join the Civil Rights movement, and blacks will have equal rights. -
I have a dream speech -
This event was used to call attention to the constant segregation African Americans were experiencing. This has importance because it is where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Also, because it was used to draw attention to the inequalities African Americans were experiencing which would add more participants to the Civil Rights Movement. -
A church in Alabama was bombed because it was known as a meeting place for all African Americans, and to target them.. This is important because many people lost their loved ones, and because the African Americans were targeted in an attempt to scare them through violence and using weapons. -
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 mostly white volunteers joined African Americans in Mississippi to fight against voter intimidation and discrimination at the polls. -
In 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the black community. -
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. -
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
The immediate cause of the disturbances was the arrest of an African American man, Marquette Frye, by a white California Highway Patrol officer on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. -
Bobby Seale is an American political activist and author. In 1966, he co-founded the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Huey P. Newton. -
Stokely Carmichael was a U.S. civil-rights activist who in the 1960s originated the Black nationalism rallying slogan, “Black power.” Born in Trinidad, he immigrated to New York City in 1952. -
The black panthers were an organization that was about Balck socialism, nationalism, and armed self-defense against police brutality. This organization was important because it helped blacks with empowerment and by finding ways to prevent police brutality. -
Thurgood Marshall was an associate justice of the Supreme Court. This has importance because having a black associate justice makes the world less segregated and more inclusive. -
His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
Poor People's Campaign, also called Poor People's March, political campaign that culminated in a demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1968, in which participants demanded that the government formulate a plan to help redress the employment and housing problems of the poor throughout the United States. -
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