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Formally abolished slavery in the United States.
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Granted citizenship to "all persons born or natruralized in the United States; which included former slaves recently freed.
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African American men get the right to vote.
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African American civil rights activist
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African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery.
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The first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi.
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Calls for the end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights.
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a landmark piece of civil rights and US labor law legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Malcolm X was expected to blame Nation of Islam members for fire bombing his home. Following his break with the Nation of Islam, and his public criticisms of its leader, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X received death threats from Black Muslims.
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James Earl Ray shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March.
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the United States that 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."
