NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- It was formed in 1909 as a Civil Rights Organization for African-Americans
- It was there to make sure that there were equal rights, no discrimination against African-Americans.
Martin Luther King Jr.- He was a leader of the African American Civil Rights movement.
- Gave the I Have a Dream speech in 1963 to stop segregation and discrimination against blacks.
- Youngest person to recieve Nobel Peace Prize for ending racial discrimination and segregation by using civil disobedience.
Malcolm X- African-American Muslim public speaker, minister, and also a human rights activist.
- Spoke to the public about black rights and segregation and discrimination.
- He was one of the most influential African Americans in the world people said.
Jackie Robinson-Was the first black major league baseball player.
- He helped stop the baseball color line when he began playing for the Brooklynn Dodgers.
- He brought an end to racial segregation in the baseball area.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka-They decided that segregation of school was unconstitutional.
- Happened in 1954 and overturned the plessy-fergusen act.
- The Brown vs. BOE helped get us closer to integregation and help the civil rights movement.
De-segregating the US Military-President Harry Truman executive order 9989 to integrate militaries.
- This mandated equality and allowed equal opportunity to e apart of the US military.
- There was no racial remarks allowed in each military law.
Little Rock 9-Group of African American students that went to school at Little Rock Central High
- They Group of students werent allowed to enter the racially segregated school.
- Eisenhower had an intervention with the Arkansas Government and the students had their first day of school with multiple threats but later leading to desegregation of schools.
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott-African American Civiil Rights Activist
- Rosa refused to follow segregation rules on a bus when she was ordered to move out of a white passengers seat.
- Her "Civil Disobedience" lead to the Montgomery Bus boycott and desegregating busses.
Greensboro sit-ins-Series on protests to end segregation in Southern US
- took place in woolworths store.
- The Protestors protested instrumentaly which increased National Sentiment
Freedom Rides-Happened May 1961
- 7 blacks and 6 whites took 2 public busses from DC to the south to test the Supreme Court
- The Freedom Riders went against the Supreme Court stating that segregation on interstates was unconstitutional.
Birmingham, Alabama—1963
- Was a campaign to bring attention to unequal treatment of African Americans.
- Black youth went against white civilians to fight for their rights.
- The municipal government was soon pressured into changing discrimination laws.
Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project)
- was a campaign in June 1964 to Register African Americans as voters.
- This project helped set up Freedom houses and schools in a free community to build the population of blacks in the area.
Selma, Alabama—1965
- Three marches to montgomery to mark the peak of political and emotional feeling towards the Civil Rights movement.
- They were trying to spread the voting rights in Selma to Montgomery in a not so graceful way.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Enforced the 15th amandment and allowed all Blacks to vote
- it was a goal to change the discrimitation of black voting rights so that whites and blacks had equal rights.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
- It ended all unequal rights, segregation, discrimition and racial remarks.
- It ended all segregation in schools, bathrooms, workplaces, ect.
Stokely Carmichael
- He was a trinidian american black activist during the 1960's
Black Panthers
- Was a african american revolutionary organization to support anti-racism from 1966-1982
Affirmative action
- Policies that use factors like race, color, gender, ect into consideration to back the effects of segregation.
Jesse Jackson
- Was a Baptist Minister and Americal Civil right activist between 1984-1988.
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