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An interracial organization dedicated to advancing justice for African Americans. The founding occurred in New York City, with key figures like W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, and Ida B. Wells, among others, playing pivotal roles -
They were nine African American male teenagers accused of raping two white women. -
He broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball after he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state-sponsored segregation in public schools is unconstitutional, violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
He was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi, after whistling at a white woman -
A protest against racial segregation on public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Nine African American teenagers bravely integrated Little Rock Central High School. They faced immense resistance and hostility. -
Ruby Bridges became the first Black child to integrate an all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. -
He was imprisoned as a participant in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation. -
These ended discrimination in the US based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was a revolutionary organization based on Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. -
On stage at the Audubon Ballroom, Malcolm X was gunned down as his pregnant wife and four daughters took cover in the front row. Three members of the Nation of Islam—Mujahid Abdul Halim, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam were soon charged with first-degree murder. -
The first African American to hold that position. He served 24 years, retiring in 1991. -
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois. But how we now know as our first black president.