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Asa Phillip Randolph
In 1950, along with Roy Wilkinson and Arnold Aronson,Randolph founded the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. -
Committee on Civil Rights
This Committee was created to strengthen the rights for all Americans. One of the main tasks was to examine violence against African Americans. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first African Amercan to join a major league baseball team. Despite the racial abuse from teammates,dodger fans,and opponents he went on to have a very successful 10 year career -
Ku Klux Klan
The KKK is a white hate group. They opposed the civil rights movement. During the civil rights movement they expressed their hate throughout te south with bombings and multple murders -
Brown V. Board of Education
This court overturned Plessy V. Ferguson ruling of "sepearate but equal". This case ended federal segregation in public schools -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus boycott was a turning point in the Civil rights Movement. For over a year almost the entire African American Population refused to ride segregated buses. -
Governor Faubus
Governor Orval Faubus blocked the enrollment of eight students, who had been ordered by a judge to desegregate Little Rock High School. -
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth was one of the nine students in the Little Rock Nine.These were the nine students who disegregated Little Rock Central High School -
Samuel O'Quinn
Samuel O'Quinn was murdered outside his home in Centreville,MS. He was shot in the back after joining the NAACP. His case is still unsolved -
Clyde Kennard
September of 1959 was the third time he applied to USM. After he was denied again he filed a suit aganst the school. The case made it to the Surpreme Court and ruled in is favor. He became the first Arican Amrican to attend the University of Mississippi. -
Anne Moody
Anne Moody was a primary participant in a sit-in to desegregate the lunch counter of a local woolworth's. She also took part in the historic March on Washington -
Arrest of Martn Luther King Jr.
In Birmingham,Alabama Dr. King was arrested following a nonviolent protest against segregation. He was placed in Birmingham City Jail for 11 days. This arrest led to national attention to the civil rights movement. -
James Meredith
James Meredith applied at University of Missisippi, an all white school. He was admitted but his application got denied after they found out his race. Meredith then filed a suit that made it to the Supreme Court,which ruled in his favor. James Meredith became the first African American to attend Ole Miss. -
First Civil Rights Act
The Civil Righs Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned discriminaton on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson caused a tremendous amount of contraversy throughout the nation during the cuvil rights movement. It stated that as long as blacks and whites had the same facility they could be seperate. It's ruling was expanded and did not over turn until Brown v. Board of Education -
2nd Civil Rights Act
The civil rights act expanded to bring disabled americans,the elderly, and women under its belt also. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act enforced the 15th amendment. This act prohibited racial discrimination in voting. -
Black Panthers
The Black Panthers was a black nationalist group created by Dr. Huey P. Newton. The groups main focus was to fight against police brutality during the civil rights movement. -
Black Power Movement
The Black Power Movement started after James Meredith began a march and was shot.It was then that civil rights leaders decided that they needed Black Power -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis,TN. He was rushed to the hospital and was later pronounced dead. The death of America's leading civil rights activist caused riots all over the south.
