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Niagara Movement
The Niagara Movement was a civil rights group organized by W.E.B. DuBois and William Monroe Trotter in 1905.It is a organization dedicated to social and political change for African Americans. It list demands to end segregation and discrimination. They want equality of economic education opportunity. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first african american to play major league baseball in 1947.He won the national league rookie of the year award in his first season and help the dodgers to national league championship. He went to the world series 6 times. He was inducted into the baseball hall of fame in 1962. He faced a bunch of insults and treats because of his race. -
Sweatt v.Painter
Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629, was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks was a person that had to ride the bus. The african Americans had to sit in back but she wanted to sit in front. She did not want to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama on a city bus in 1955. Rosa Parks help initiate the civil rights movement in the United States. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation.Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil RIghts Act was a law signed by President Dwight D. EIsenhower on September 7, 1957. It was a law passed to protect voting rights. It was also to show the
federal government’s support for equal rights for African Americans.
This movement was important because no one could be denied their right to vote. The Civil Rights Act helped the federal government continue to fight for civil rights. -
Freedom Ride
The Freedom Ride was groups of white and African American people that were civil rights activists. They were known as Freedom Riders. They took bus trips to the South to protest against segregated areas. They went to place and try to use the “white only” restrooms.
This movement was important because when they did these bus trips they were always confronted by police and protesters. When this happened, they always got attention for their cause, which was to end segregation. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was a huge protest march in 1963. It was held in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was held to fight for fair treatment and equal opportunities for African Americans.
This movement was important because Martin Luther King spoke at it. His “I Have A Dream” speech in now known as one of the most famous in history. -
Bloody Sunday
March from Selma, AL to Montgomery, AL (1965)
Bloody Sunday happened on March 7, 1965, when civil rights marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery. They were marching for voting rights. State troopers brutally attacked them to stop them.
This movement was important because it forced Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is now a civil rights landmark. -
Black Panthers
The Black Panthers was a political group founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. It was a group to help stop police brutality against the African American community, They wore black berets and black leather jackets. As they grew, they had about 2,000 members.
This movement was important because it made people pay attention to the civil rights movement. It made people realize that African Americans needed to be accepted in society or they would never have peace.
