NAACP- the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People- a civil rights organization for colored people and other minorities.
Martin Luther King Jr.- African-American civil rights activist- received the Nobel Peace Prize- assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
Malcolm X- African-American minister and civil rights activist- born in Omaha, Nebraska
Jackie Robinson- First African-American major league baseball player
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka- Decided that the separation of blacks and whites at school is wrong.
De-segregating the US Military- Allowing black and white soldiers to fight together
Little Rock 9- Group of African-American students who attended Little Rock Central High School and were one day denied access into the building.
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott- Rosa Parks, an African-American women, who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person and was arrested because of it.
Greensboro sit-ins- Protests that were not violent that resulted in Woolworth's department store to not be racially segregated.
Freedom Rides- Civil rights activists who rode on buses to test the court's decision against racial segregation.
Birmingham, Alabama—1963- One of the most racially divided cities in the US in the 1960s- 1963 people pressured the city to change its discrimination laws.
Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project)- Attempt to get as many African-Americans to become voters in Mississippi.
Selma, Alabama—1965- Bloody Sunday- Civil rights activists in the city were attacked by police with tear gas and billy clubs
Voting Rights Act of 1965- Outlawed discrimination of voters.
Civil Rights Act of 1964- Outlawed major acts of discrimination against African-Americans and women.
Stokely Carmichael- Kwame Ture- Black activist- made the term "black power" popular
Black Panthers- Black Panther Party- anti-racist party that was involved in the Black Power movement.
Affirmative action- Promote equal opportunity no matter someone's race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.
Jesse Jackson- African-American civil rights activist- presidential candidate in 1984
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