Civil Rights for African-Americans, Women and Latin-Americans/Native Americans -period in US history where African-Americans, women, Latin-Americans, and Native Americans fought for equal rights and against racial discrimination.
NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization for ethnic minorities in the US.
Martin Luther King Jr.-African-American clergyman, activist, and leader in civil rights movement, "I Have A Dream Speech", assassinated
Malcolm X-African-American Islamic minister, public speaker, human rights activist, was in jail for awhile, assassinated
Jackie Robinson-first black major league baseball player, Dodgers
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka-declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
De-segregating the US Military-passed by President Truman, executive order 9981
Little Rock 9-group of black students who were orginally banned from a white school but then President Eisenhower ordered the school to let them attend
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott-Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white woman, MLK jr had all the black residents of the city boycott riding the bus on Dec 5, 1955
Greensboro sit-ins-4 black college students sat in Woolworth's department store and ordered coffee, store employee refused to serve them as it was "whites only"
Freedom Rides-a group of black guys rode a public bus from DC to the deep south to test the supreme court's ruling that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional, along the way they were beaten
Birmingham, Alabama—1963-on Sep 15 a man was seen placing a box outside a church, it turned out to be a bomb and killed 4 young black girls and wounded 23 other people, it turned out to be the Klu Klux Klan
Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project)-campaign in the US to register as many black Mississippian voters as possible in summer 1964
Selma, Alabama—1965-a protest march took place on March 7 from Selma to Montgomery, the march was stopped by troopers who had teargas and beat the nonviolent protesters
Voting Rights Act of 1965-passed by President Johnson, outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting
Civil Rights Act of 1964-made racial discrimination in public places, such as theaters, restaurants and hotels, illegal, also required employers to provide equal employment opportunities
Stokely Carmichael-Trinidadian-American black activist, member of SNCC, "black power"
Black Panthers-initially formed to protect local communities from police brutality and racism, also ran medical clinics and provided free food to school children, Stokely Carmichael
Affirmative action-policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination especially in education and employment
Jesse Jackson-black American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, ran for president in 1984, met MLK jr
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