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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States.
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The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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Little Rock Central High School is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.
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Executive Order 8802 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry.
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The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Executive Order 9981 is an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman.
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the racial segregation in public schools that violated the Fourteenth amendment.
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Was a 14 year old African-American who was lynched after being accused of offending a white woman.
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Was formed in 1957 just after the Montgomery Bus Boycott had ended.
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Were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro.
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In a closely contested election, Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee.
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Freedom Riders were brutally attacked by violent, well-armed and organized mobs of Klansman and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala.
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The Children's March was a protest march by thousands of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, from May 2-5, 1963.
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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.
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November 22, 1963, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX
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The murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County, Miss., inspired the movie Mississippi Burning.
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.
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The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California by college students Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
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April 4, 1968, St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis
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June 6, 1968, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.
