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This was an institution which taught useful/essential skills. It was the first instutution which taught higher level education to African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
This was a court case which held that African Americans were "seperate but equal" which created racial segregation. This had a strong impact on the next several decades of the Civil Rights Movement in that it stimulated protests and movements to overturn this court decision. -
This was an organization created that fought for African Americans getting jobs, voting, education, and more to oppose the segregation during the Civil Rights Movement. -
An ammendement passed where voting would not be prevented based upon gender which was a major milestone for Women's Rights during the Civil Rights Movement. -
This was a court case which eventually deemd that it was not constitutional to have colored people in a different school from white people. This was a major step in the direction to end segregation. -
Emmet Till was murdered in Mississippi which sparked many African Americans who had gone through violence for a long period of time to rise up and resist the segregation. Emmet Till was known as an icon as he served as an inspiration to the African American community. -
Due to Rosa Parks being arrested for not giving up her bus seat, many African Americans refused to ride on a segregated bus which was a major revolt in the Civil Rights Era to end segregation. -
A group of 9 African Americnas were not allowed to attent a high school they enrolled in due to segregation so they challenged the school making it an integeral part to the fight for equality. -
This was passed to ensure that anyone who violated the right for citezens to vote would be prosecuted which was signfiicant in the suffrage sector of the Civil Rights Movement. -
This student group was designed to give young African Americans a bigger voice in the civil rights movement which ended up becoming a radical branch and key part against segregation. -
People who rode buses into the South to revolt against the lack of enforcement of policies which deemed segregated buses unconstitutional. This lead to violence which called national involvement to change things. -
This was a protest in the Capital to stand for Civil Rights for minorities which led to the government under pressure and forced to draw attention to the segregation. -
This ammendment created a ban on taxes for polls of a federal election which impacted the Civil Rights Movement by ending Jim Crow laws which had a tax on African Americans to vote. -
This ended discrimination of all sorts based upon skin color, race, religion, or gender which accomplished the goal of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Protests where African Americans demanded their right to vote against segregationists. -
Based upon the March at Selma, this act was passed by Johnson to ensure that there were no prohibitions to voting. -
An organization which emphasized African American identity such as pride and self determination which influcenced Civil Rights aspects of popular culture and eudcation. -
Marshall was appointed to Supreme Court as the first African American which was a symbol of the progress of the Civil Rights Movement. -
A movement founded in order to help conditions of Native Americans in urbanized areas by restoring their tribal values in the areas. -
MLK was assasinated on this day being remembered as one of the most influential spoksmen of the Civil Rights Movement.