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Anne Moody
Anne Moody was a well-known, black Mississippi author. She has written an autobiographical work depictibg life in mississippi and the struggles of black people in the South. Her books help people understand what life was like in the segregated South before and during the Civil Rights Movement. -
A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph organized and led the Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly African American labor union. In the early Civil Rights Movement, Randolph led the March on Washington Movement , which convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802 in 1941,banning discfrimination in the defense industries during WW2. -
Committee on Civil Rights
Committee on Civil Rights was established by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946. It's purpose was to propose measures to strength and protect the civil rights of the American people. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson made history in 1947 when he broke baseball's color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Despite his skills, Robinson faced a barrage of insults and threats because of his race. The courage and grace with which Robinson handled the abuses inspired a generation of African Americans to question the doctrine of "separate but equal" and helped pave the way for the Civil Rights Movement. -
Brown v. Board Of Education Topeka, Kansas
Brown v. Board Of Education Of Topeka, Kansas, case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. Linda Brown was denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka because she was black. When, combined with several other cases, her suit reached the Supreme Court, that body, in an opinion by recently appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren,broke with long tradition and unanimously overruled the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Plessey v. Ferguson
In the case of Brown v. Board Of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public education was unconstitutional. Plessey v. Ferguson was never overturned by the Supreme Court. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On a cold December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks quietly incited a revloution by just sitting down. Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Courts ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect. A year ealier, she had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. -
Governor Faubus Resists Integration
On September 2, 1957, the day before the nine black students were to enter Central High School, National Guardsmen surrounded the school. Governor Faubus proclaimed that if the black students attempted to enter Central, " blood would run in the streets." -
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Ann Eckford made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine,the nine African -American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.She tried to enter the campus twice, only to be turned away both times by Arkansas National Guard troops,there under orders from Governor Orval Faubus. -
First Civil Rights Act
The earlier Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first law addressing the legal rights of African Americans passed by the Congress since Reconstruction, had established the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to investigate claims of racial discrimination. -
Samuel O'Quinn
Sameul O'Quinn was a successful businessman of 11 children and owned a large plantation, worked as assistant town engineer, and was engaged in several other business endeavors around Southwest Mississippi.His life ended near midnight, when he was shot in the back outside of the front gate of Whitaker Plantation. -
Second Civil Rights Act of 1960
President Eisenhower signed the Civil rights Act of 1960, in an effort to increase protection for Afican Americans at the polls. The second piece of federal civil rights legislation eracted in the twentieth century-also expanded the enforcement powers of the Civil Rights Act through its inclusion of provisions against bombings and local interference with federal court orders,among other issues. -
Clyde Kennard
The first isKennard's courageous persistence to defy the enforced segregation of Mississippi Southern College (University of Southern Mississippi). For these efforts, Kennard was framed on a false robbery charge and was sent to prison. -
James Meredith
James Meredith was a civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippiin 1962. He was admitted,but his admission was withdrawn when the registar discovered his race. -
Arrest of Martin Luther King In Alabama
On April 16, 1963, ,Martin Luther King wrote a letter from a Birmingham Jail. Martin Luther KIng Jr.'s declaration was the city was the most segregated in the nation, protests were starting to be met with quiet resignation rather than uproar. -
Ku Klux Klan
The civil rights movement of the 1960s saw a surge of local ku klux klan activity across the South, including bombings, beatings, and shootings of black and white activists. These actions carried out in secret but apparently the work of local klansmen, outraged the nation and helped win support of the civil rights cause. Several members of the KKK groups were convicted of murder in the deaths of civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 and children in the bombing . -
Voting Rights Act
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminating voting practices adopted in many Southern states after the Civil War, including literary tests as a prequisite to voting. -
Black Panthers
The Black Panthers practiced militant self-defense of military communities against the U.S. government and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mas organizing and comminity based programs. -
Black Power Movement At Its Peak
In 1967, Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali refused induction into the armed forces on both religious and political grounds. The next year, John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised their gloved fists in a black power salute from the victory stand at the Olympic Games in Mexico City. And two years after that, Cartflood challenged the reserve clause in professional baseball eventually changing the nature of the sport. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death at a hotel in Memphis,Tennessee. A single shot fired by James Earl Ray over 200 feet away at a nearby motel struck King in the neck. He died an hour later at St. Joseph's Hospital. The death of America's leading civil rights advocate sparked a wave of rioting in the black communities of several cities around the country.
