NAACP
The NAACP stood for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This is an African American Civil Rights Organization that was formed in 1909. The NAACP mission was to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. It basically said that everyone is created equal no matter what they look like.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent leader in the African American Civil Rights Movement. He was also a baptist minister in his early years. Martin Luther King Jr. presented the " I have a dream," speech in 1963 and he was the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Martin Luther King Jr. was basically working at ending racial segregation and racial discrimination.
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and a human rights activist. Malcolm X indicated the whites in America that they were being harsh in the crimes against the African Americans in America. He is said to be one of the most influential and greatest African Americans in history. Malcolm X fought for the African American's rights.
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first black Major league baseball player of the modern era. Robinson was very important to bringing racial segregation and discrimination to a stop because he was one of the first blacks to play major league baseball since the 1800's. Robinson significantly contributed to the Civil Rights Movement.
Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka
This case ruled that separating blacks and whites in schools was unequal and unconstitutional. This overturned the case Plessy v. Ferguson which stated that it was ok to separate the black and the whites in schools.
De-Segregating the US Military
There has not been a war in US history that African Americans have not participated in, but that does not mean that they were not discriminated against. The Executive Order 9981 eliminated the discrimination against the US african american soldiers that fought in the war.
Little Rock 9
This was a group of African American students who were going to school in Little Rock Central High School and the students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governer Orval Faubus.
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus in 1955 when she was ordered to go to the back of the bus. She became an idol to many and won many awards for her actions after this incident.
Greensboro Sit-In's
This was a series of non-violent protests that made a store called Woolworth's change its way on racial segregation.
Freedom Rides
Freedom riders were people that would go into the segregated southern United States and test the US Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia.
Birmingham, Alabama- 1963
On Sunday, September 15, 1963 there was a bombing at a baptist church that killed four little girls that were just attending Sunday School. This marked a turning point in the US.
Mississippi Summer Project
This was made to register as many african american voters as possible in Mississippi. At this time, there were pretty much no african american voters at all. This changed everything.
Selma, Alabama-1965
600 civil rights marchers organized a march and they were beaten by police officers with clubs and tear gas. This date is also known as "Bloody Sunday."
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act stated that there will be no discrimination on who will vote and who will be able to vote, especially African Americans. This basically just allowed all blacks to vote.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This ended pretty much all racial segregation from voting, schools, public discrimination, etc. This allowed blacks to do anything a white person was allowed to do.
Stokely Carmichael
He was a black activist in the 1960's who was the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commitee.
Black Panthers
This african american group achieved many civil rights accomplishments and this was active from 1966 to the 1970's.
Affirmative Action
These actions refer to policies that take factors including race, color, ethnicity, religion, or even gender. These actions end the discrimination of all of the those factors.
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson was a Baptist minister much like Martin Luther King Jr. He worked with eliminating all racial segregation of the african americans. Jackson was voted " the most important black leader of all time."
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