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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells -
Universal negro improvement assoc
Designed to improve to the african american peoples condition in the united states -
Executive order 8802
Prohibits racial discrimination in the military -
Executive order 9981
Designed to extend powers and responsibilities of U.S. intelligence agencies and direct the leaders of U.S. federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA requests for information. -
Brown v.s Boe Topeka
The policy "separate but equal" is applied -
Greensboro 4
The "Greensboro 4" begin their own protests by organizing Sit ins -
Emmet Till
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. -
James Lawson
James Morris Lawson, Jr. is an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. -
Southern christian leadership council
James bevel calls for a march on Selma -
Little rock central high school
A school that was forcefully desegragated -
Kennedy-Nixon debates
Kennedy and Nixon debate for the position of president -
Freedom riders attacked in Anniston, AL
The Freedom riders are attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama -
M.L.K "I have a dream" speech
M.L.K deliver his famous speech in Washington d.c, the speech gained international recognition and helped the civil rights movement -
Assassination of JFK
President John F Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald -
Chaney, Goodman and schwerner murders
Three civil rights activists were abducted and murdered in Mississippi -
Selma voting rights march
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. Their overall goal was to be allowed to vote -
WATTS riots
After what some believed an unfair use of force by police a riot ensued -
Black panther, huey newton
huey was a founder if the black panther party, he was killed 1989 -
Birmingham's children crusade
A demonstration led by M.L.K, the protester were beaten with batons and sprayed with fire hoses -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King was killed by James Earl Ray -
Assassination of RFK
Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy's brother, was assassinated because of his foreign policies. -
South poverty law center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation
