NAACP- national association for the advancement of colored people is a civil rights organization for ethnic minorities in the US.
Martin Luther King Jr. - American activist and leader of the African America civil rights movement.
Malcolm X- African American Muslim minister, public speaker and human rights activist.
Jackie Robinson- first black Major League baseball player
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka- made state laws declaring separate schools for colored and whites unconstitutional.
De-segregating the US military- allowed blacks to fight in the military alongside whites.
Little Rock 9- a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott- protest campaign started in Montgomery to oppose racial segregation on public transportation systems. Rosa Parks didn’t give up her seat for a white rider on the bus.
Greensboro sit ins- Nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina which led to Woolworth departments stores reversing its policy of racial segregation in the south.
Freedom rides- civil rights activists traveled to the south to test the required desegregation laws in the South
Birmingham, Alabama 1963- explosion of an African- American church killing four little girls
Mississippi Summer Project- attempt to register as many African- American voters as possible in Mississippi
Selma Alabama 1965- Selma to Montgomery marches to try to register black voters. “Bloody Sunday” cops attacked and beat the marchers.
Voting Rights Act of 1965- outlawed discriminatory voting practices.
Civil Rights Act of 1964- outlawed discrimination against black men and women including racial segregation.
Stokely Carmichael- black civil activist. Leader of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and part of the Black Panther Party
Black Panthers- African- American leftist party that was involved in the Black Power movement and US politics.
Affirmative Action- Policies that help an underrepresented group in things like jobs and education by factors like race, gender, religion, etc.
Jesse Jackson- civil rights activist, Baptist minister, shadow senator for DC, ran for president
Martin Luther King Jr
Rosa Parks
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