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Creation of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. -
Scottsboro Boys
The "Scottsboro Boys" were nine young African American men wrongly accused and convicted of raping two white women on a train in Alabama in 1931. -
Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, becoming the first African American to play in the modern era. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional. -
The Murder of Emmitt Till
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American youth, who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
a civil rights protest where African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride city buses to protest segregated seating. -
The Little Rock 9
nine African American students who bravely integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, defying segregation policies -
Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school in New Orleans
Ruby Bridges desegregated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. She was the first Black student to attend the school on November 14, 1960. -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
a response to criticisms of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement and its tactics from eight white clergymen. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark U.S. civil rights and labor law that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcom X was assanated -
Creation of the Black Panthers
a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. -
Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 13, 1967, and his nomination was confirmed by the Senate on August 30, 1967. He was sworn in on October 2, 1967, becoming the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
when martin luther king got assanated -
Election of Barack Obama
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.