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Civil Rights Movement
Social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them. -
Executive Order 9981
It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
Brown v. Board of Education
U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision regarding the case Brown v. Board of Education the plaintiffs charged that the education of black children in separate public schools from their white counterparts was unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till was Murdered
A young 14 year old African American boy was murdered in mississippi after being accused of flirting with a white woman -
Rosa Parks and the Alabama boycott
About 50,000 of Montgomery's African Americans,Many of them refused to ride the bus, the boycott lasted for 381 days, eventually the local ordinance segregating African Americans and whites on public buses was repealed. -
SCLC
African-American civil rights organization -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African American students were enrolled into Little Rock Central High School. They had to be escorted -
WoolWorth Sit-Ins
The four students sat down at the segregated lunch counter to protest Woolworth's policy of excluding African Americans from being served there -
SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee)
Focused on black power, and then protesting against the Vietnam War. and other protest like the sit in's -
Freedom Rides
activists traveled through the Deep South to integrate seating patterns on buses and desegregate bus terminals. In Anniston, Alabama, one bus was firebombed, forcing its passengers to flee for their lives -
James Meredith
His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans. -
March on Washington
Major focus was on passage of the civil rights law that the Kennedy administration had proposed after the upheavals in Birmingham as well as meaningful civil rights laws, massive federal works program, full & fair employment, decent housing, the right to vote, and adequate integrated education. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws written by MLK Jr. -
Bull Connor uses force on demonstrators
Bull” Connor uses fire hoses, dogs, on black demonstrators -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
A bombing as an act of white supremacist terrorism. Killing 4 young girls by the KKK -
24th Amendment
Expresses inability of a Federal or State government to deny a citizen of the United States the right to vote as a result of failure to satisfy the required payments of a poll tax. -
Murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
Three young civil rights workers a black Mississippian, James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. They were arrested by the police on trumped-up charges, imprisoned for several hours, and then released after dark into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who beat and murdered them. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. -
MLK recieves Nobel Peace Prize
youngest man to receive the award and he was 35 years of age -
Boycott of New Orleans by American Football League players
Black players with the AFL’s Buffalo Bills had trouble getting a taxi or even basic service at restaurants. The team discussed the situation at a meeting and agreed to boycott the game as a statement against the racist conditions in the city. -
Bloody Sunday
600 marchers, protesting the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson and ongoing exclusion from the electoral process, were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas. -
Voting Rights Act of 1991
enforce the voting rights;the Act allowed for a mass enfranchisement of racial minorities throughout the country, especially in the South -
Los Angeles Race Riot of 1965
ensuing struggle during Marquette Frye arrest sparked off 6 days of rioting, resulting in 34 deaths, over 1,000 injuries, nearly 4,000 arrests, and the destruction of property valued at $40 million. -
Executive Order 11246
established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors. Government business in one year from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color,etc. -
Black Panthers Founded
The organization initially set forth a doctrine calling primarily for the protection of black neighborhoods from police brutality. -
Loving v. Virginia
April 10, 1967-June 12, 1967 Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, had been sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. Their marriage violated Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute. -
MLK Assassinatied
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin and made it a federal crime to “by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone by reason of their race, color, religion, or national origin. -
1992 Los Angeles Race Riots
12-person jury, which included 10 whites and no African-Americans, issued its verdicts: not guilty on all counts, except for one assault charge against Powell that ended in a hung jury.