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Tuskegee University is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama. -
this was a case that was separate but equal -
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States -
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. -
African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. they were initially prevented from entering the school -
groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals -
this is the right of citizens to vote -
They marched to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote -
outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting -
a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community -
The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a Native American grassroots movement founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, initially centered in urban areas to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality against Native Americans -
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 -
was a social and political movement in the United States inspired by prior acts of resistance among people of Mexican descent, especially of Pachucos in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Black Power movement, that worked to embrace a Chicano/a identity and worldview