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Emmett was an 14 year old African American boy who was abducted and tortured by 2 white men for "whisteling" at one of the mans wife. The mother of Emmett had a open funeral to show what these men did to him -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest was a 13 month mass protest that ended with the supreme court saying that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional -
Little Rock Nine Crisis was a crisis when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard to prevent Nine African American students from integrating the High School -
This act was a investigation of right violations and authorized for those who violated the right to vote for us citizens -
The Greensboro Sit-in was a civil rights protest when young African American students staged a sit-in protest in a lunch counter after being denied service, thing protest spread through town -
This was the largest gathering for civil rights at the time.250,000 people attended the march on Washington for jobs and freedom -
Malcolm X was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement , Malcolm was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City -
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent protesters to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama after a 5-day,54 mile march from Selma, Alabama -
This law outlawed the discrimination viting practices adopted in many southern states after the civil war,including literacy tests as a prequisite to voting -
This act protects people from discrimination when they are renting, buying or securing finacing for any house. This protects discrimination because of race,color,nation origin ,sex and disability -
This case was dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools. This was done to ensure the schools "properly" integrated all students would receive equal opportunities -
Chrisholm announced her candidacy for the presidential nomination with Bella Abzug. Chrisholm was also the first African American Women to campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination -
In 1974 Hank Arron shattered Babe Ruths home run record when playing for the Atlanta Braves -
Jordan called for Americans to commit themselves to a "national community", jordan begged nothing she was the first black women to ever deliver a keynote address at a major party convention, which wouldve been impossible a decade earlier -
This was a supreme court case which was held at the Universitys admissions which violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteen Amendment