NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Martin Luther King Jr.-leader in african american rights movement, assassinated
Malcolm X-also was a leader in african american rights movement, also assassinated
Jackie Robinson-first black MLB player
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka-state laws established seperate public schools for blacks and whites was unconstitutional
De-segregating the
Little Rock 9-9 african american enrolled in a little rock high school
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott-Rosa Parks refused to move and was arrested and that started a political and social protest campaign
Greensboro sit-ins-nonviolent protests that led Woolworth's stores to change their segregation policy
Freedom Rides-a new tactic for desegregating public transportation
Birmingham, Alabama—1963- a bomb was placed under the church where many black rights' leaders met, killed 4 innocents
Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project)-tried to register as many black voters as possible
Selma, Alabama—1965-"Bloody Sunday", it was a freedom march that ended up as a beatdown
Voting Rights Act of 1965-outlawed discriminatory voting practices
Civil Rights Act of 1964-outlawed many forms of racial discrimination against blacks and women
Stokely Carmichael-leader of the Black Panther organization
Black Panthers-organization that helped blacks get rights and things like that
Affirmative action-policies that take factors of race, color, religion, gender, national origin into consideration in order to benefit a group
Jesse Jackson-black, candidate for democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988
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