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African American leader Booker T Washington founded this institute in 1881 to train African Americans in agriculture and industry and promote the economic progress of poc. -
This was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of the segregation laws for public facilities as long as they were equal in quality. ¨separate but equal¨ -
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was created by a group of African Americans by the name WEB Bouis, Ida Bells and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans -
The 19th amendment states that all citizens of the united states should be able to use their right to vote. -
This order abolished discrimination of race based on race, color, religion or national origin. This also ended segregation of services in the Korean War. -
This was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled that the discrimination of African Americans in public schools is unconstitutional. -
14 year old Emmett Till was with family in Mississippi, was brutally murdered when whistling at a white women, this is significant because it was a time of segregation in the south, and this awoke a period of activism. -
This boycott was a civil rights protest when African Americans refused to ride buses in Montgomery Alabama to protest segregated seating.It is seen as the first large scale US demonstration against segregation. -
This was a group of 9 black students who enrolled at an all white school in Little Rock Arkansas. Their enrollment was followed by by the Little Rock Crisis, when they were denied admission. -
The civil rights act of 1957 outlawed segregation in public areas and prevented discrimination. President Eisenhower sent congress the proposal for this legislation. -
This was a civil rights protest that that started when yough african american students staged a sit in at a segregated Woolworth's Lunch Counter in Greensboro and they refused to leave after being denied service. -
These people were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern united states to challenge how the constitution was not being held up. -
This was a massive protest march where people gathered in front of the lincoln memorial, in Washington DC, this is also known as the march for jobs and freedom. This is also where MLK gave his I Have A Dream speech. -
This act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. This is a landmark act for the progress of discrimination. -
This was part of a group of civil rights protests that occured in Alabama, these marches were organized by nonviolent activists that wanted to help African Americans use their constitutional right to vote in a time of segregation. -
This act was signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson, it outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. -
This organization was created with the ideology of black nationalism, socialism and armed self defence against police brutality. -
This was first sought to improve living conditions of Native Americans who recently urbanized. It then grew to an national movement to help Natives. -
MLK was staying at the Lorraine hotel in Memphis when he was shot with a bullet by James Ray. This assassination sent shock waves around the world, it led to anger among black americans and a period of national mourning. It did help with some civil right advances for african americans. -
The 24th amendment prohibits congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on a payment of poll tax or other types of tax.