- Civil Rights for African-Americans, Women and Latin-Americans/Native Americans:African-Americans, women, Latin-Americans, and Native Americans fought for equal rights and against racial discrimination, containing many marches, protests, and civil leaders.
- NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil rights organization, still around today
- Martin Luther King Jr.-Black activist, preacher, and leader in civil rights movement, famous for the "I Have A Dream Speech", but was assassinated
- Malcolm X-African-American Islamic minister, public speaker, human rights activist, similar to MLK, but was more adament about using violence to obtain equal right. was in jail for awhile, and was assassinated
- Jackie Robinson-first black major league baseball player; played for the Dodgers
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka- Ended segregation of students in schools; segregation ruled unconstitutional.
De-segregating the US Military-passed by President Truman, allowed mixed-race companies
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,led to the bus boycott
Greensboro sit-ins-African American students sat inside "whites-only" establishments and were refused service.
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. Beaten along the way.
Birmingham, Alabama—1963-Klu Klux Klan bombing of a chruch, killing 4 black girls and wounding 23 other people
Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project)-campaign in the US to register as many black Mississippian voters as possible in summer 1964Selma, Alabama—1965-a protest march took place on March 7 from Selma to Montgomery,
Voting Rights Act of 1965-passed by President Johnson, outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, like literacy tests.Civil Rights Act of 1964-
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.
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
Sources::
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)
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