NAACP
Stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. African American civil rights group.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Son of Martin Luther King. African American civil rights activist and leader. Very well known and influential. Best known for his "I have a Dream" speech. Assassinated by James Earl Ray.
Malcolm X
Another famous African American civil rights activist. Born in Omaha, NE. Was in prison. He became a member of the Nation of Islam while in prison.
Jackie Robinson
First black Major League Baseball Player (in modern times). Played for Brooklyn Dodgers.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Declared that segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
De-segregating the US Military
During the outbreak of the Korean War, the military was officially de-segregated.
Little Rock 9
Group of African American students who enrolled in a still racially segregated school. Major civil rights act.
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. This eventually sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott which was a civil rights movement in Montgomery protesting their segregated public transport system.
Greensboro sit-ins
Nonviolent protests taking place in Greensboro, North Carolina at a Woolsworth department store which eventually led to Woolsworth stores being de-segregated and is viewed as a major civil rights act.
Freedom Rides
Civil rights activists that rode buses into the segregated southern states to test the supreme court.
Birmingham, Alabama—1963
Movement by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to unfair treatment of African Americans in Birmingham.
Mississippi Summer Project( Freedom Summer project)
Campaign launched in June 1964 to get as many African American voters registered as possible in Mississippi.
Selma, Alabama—1965
Launched voting rights campaign to get African Americans registered and bring attention to their denial of the right to vote in Alabama.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed discriminatory voting practices towards African Americans.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed racial segregation against African Americans and also segregation of women.
Stokely Carmichael
Civil rights activist that was the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Black Panthers
African American leftist organization. Main goal was to protect African American neighborhoods from police brutality.
Affirmative action
Policies that take things such as race, gender, or religion in to consideration and can help out the group.
Jesse Jackson
Civil rights activist, Candidate for president in 1984-88.
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