Civil Rights for African-Americans, Women, and Latin-Americans/Native Americans - 13th and 14th ammendments, basically gave equal rights to the people (minorities) that didn't already have them.
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Works for equality for African Americans
Martin Luther King Jr. - Big leader of African American civil rights movement, famous i have a dream speech
Malcolm X - African American Muslim minister, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, fought for civil rights
Jackie Robinson - first black MLB player
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka - declared segregated public schools unconstitutional
De-segregating the US Military - treated blacks and whites equally in the military
Little Rock 9 - group of African American students who had to be escorted by military into a school
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott - Black woman who wouldn't give up her seat for a white man, started the bus boycott
Greensboro sit-ins - blacks sat at a white's only lunch counter in Woolworth's store
Freedom Rides - civil rights activists that rode buses into the segregated South to test the Supreme Court decision
Birmingham, Alabama—1963 - bomb placed in a church killed four black girls and wounded many others
Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project) -
Selma, Alabama—1965 - Selma to Montgomery marches, made by civil rights activists
Voting Rights Act of 1965 - outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. Ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public
Stokely Carmichael - leader of the SNCC, then prime minister of Black Panthers
Black Panthers - Organization of blacks, involved in black power movement
Affirmative action - basically anti discrimination laws, can't refuse somebody because of their race, religion, gender, etc.
Jesse Jackson - civil rights activists and baptist minister
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