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Freedom Riders
seven Black and six white activists mounted a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., embarking on a bus tour of the American south to protest segregated bus terminals. They were testing the 1960 decision by the Supreme Court in Boynton v. Virginia that declared the segregation of interstate transportation facilities unconstitutional. -
MLK "I have a dream"
It was a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr., during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that approximately 250,000 people took apart of. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. It established the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to help prevent workplace discrimination. This Act allowed for voting rights and removed some regulation restrictions. -
Voting Rights Act
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. It was a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party was an African American revolutionary organization that was formed in 1966 and reached its peak a few years later. Its initial purpose was to patrol Black neighborhoods to protect residents from police brutality. They also fought for full employment, decent housing and education, an end to police brutality, and black people to be exempt from the military.