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Du Bois , Terrell, and others gathered in New York City where they founded the NAACP to fight racism and violence against all people of color -
it was believed to be the worst incident of the racial violence in American history -
nine African American teens were accused of raping two white women on the southern railroad freight train in northern Alabama. -
the black panther party for self defense was founded, they sought justice for African Americans. -
you could ask almost anyone on the street who was in the major leagues and they would say Jackie Robinson. -
the brown vs. Board was declared the separate but equal doctrine unconstitutional -
Till was an African American boy at 14 was abducted and lynched in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white women -
it was started by the arrest of Rosa parks, it was a 13 month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses -
Japanese planes destroyed 19 US warships and 300 aircraft and killed over 2400 servicemen -
she is an American civil rights activist, she was the first to attend a whites only school in Louisiana -
after being in jail for the anti-segregation protests. -
more then a quarter million people participated in the march on Washington for jobs and freedom -
he was a US black nationalist leader Malcolm x was assassinated at the age of 39. -
the long issues of voting rights had come to the front and had been launched by civil rights activists in Selma Alabama -
Lyndon was nominated to be the civil rights lawyer, thurgood Marshall to be the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court. -
assassinated at 39, pronounced dead a 7:05pm
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