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An American civil rights activist who tried to put pressure on the Kennedy administration for African-American rights.
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Abolished racial discrimination in the U.S. armed forces. This was even more significant because of it leaing to the end of segregation within the military.
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An African-American sunday school was bombed by a whtie supermascist and 4 girls were killed, in Birmgingham, Alabama.
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A group of African-American students who attended Little Rock Central High School, and were ready to go to the non-segregated school, when the governor of Arkansas wouldn't let them in. They were later able to enter when President Eisenhower intervened.
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A court case that established that segregated schools were unconstitutional.
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An African-American 14-year old boy who was murdered after flirting with a white woman inside a store. His killers were let off with little punishment.
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Rosa Parks was sitting in the "white" section of the bus, leaving some white people standing. The bus driver told her to move and she refused. The police were called and she was arrested. After this the event, the Montgomery Bus Boycott started and wasn't good for the city's bus financing. Segregated busses were eventually found unconstitutional in the Browder vs. Gayle case.
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An African-American civil rights organization whose first president was Martin Luther King Jr.
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4 black students sat at a "white only" counter and were refused to be served. By the fourth day there were 300 people taking part, and other sit ins started in nearby cities.
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Standing for Student Nonviolent Coordinate Committee, this organization was known for going out in the feild and helping create voter regristration drives throughout the south.
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Civil Rights Activists who rode interstate buses into the Southern U.S. Some of these rides ended with voilent mobs supported by the KKK.
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This letter, written by Martin Luther King Jr., was meant to defend his actions of breaking the laws that he did. The letter explains that it is our moral responsibility to break laws that we think our unjust, which I think is an awesome thing.
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Bull Connor, a police commissionar, orders fire hoses and attack dogs to be used against black demonstrators and protestors, whcih included children.
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A political rally for rights for African-Americans which lasted 2 days and ended with Martin Luther King Jr's Speech.
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A bombing of an African-American sunday school in which 4 girls were killed. This was in Birmingham, Alabama, and was done by a white supermacist.
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The 24th Amendment prohibits a tax on voting.
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Three civil rights workers that were murdered near Philedephia. They had been trying to register black voters in Mississippi and had been investigating a burned down black church. They were arrested on fake charges and were given to the KKK who murdered them.
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Outlawed all major forms of discrimination against people who are usually discrimated against.
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Malcom X was preparing to speak at the Audubon Ballroom when someone in the front row jumped up and shot him in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. Malcom X did much for the Civil Rights movement, and brought discrimination of African-Americans to the attention of the public.
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State troopers and a sherrif's posse attacked 525 civil rights protestors in a march between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama.
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The Lovings were an interracial couple who had been banned from being in Virginia because interracial marriages were against the law. They brought this to court with Virginia, and an unanimous vote brought them in their favor.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and died around an hour later. Some people beleive this assasination was a conpiracy by the government.
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Act that made it harder to sue employers for discrimination and needed evidence to persecute.
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A series of riots and looting around the Los Angeles area, after the police officers who beat Rodney King, an African-American man, were let off with little punishment.
