Civil Rights for African- Americans, Women, Latin-Americans and Native Americans was a period where African-Americans, Women, Latin-Americans and Native Americans fought for equal rights and suffered against discrimination.
NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The NAACP is a civil rights organization for ethic groups.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American civil right movement leader.
Malcolm X was a human rights activist and an African American Muslim minister.
Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player. 
In the case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka the Supreme Court established segregated schools to be unconstitutional.
The United States de-segregated the US military after WWII under President Eisenhower.
The Little Rock 9 was a group of African American students who enrolled in Little Rock Central high school in 1957.
Rosa Parks was arrested because she wouldn’t give up her seat for a white person.
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of protests which led to Woolworths to reverse its policy of racial segregation.
The Freedom Ride was civil right activists that rode interstate buses to test the Supreme Court decision on the case Boynton vs. Virginia.
There was a meeting place in Birmingham, Alabama for civil rights leaders in 1965.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women.
Stokely Carmichael was a Trinidadian-American block activist.
The Black Panthers were an organization for African- Americans.
Affirmative actions were policies that included race, color, religion, gender and national origin into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group.
Jesse Jackson was an American civil rights activists and Baptist minister. 
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott
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