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NAACP
Derrick Johnson
February 12 , 1909 -
UNIA
Marcus Garvey 1914 -
LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL H.S. AR
The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 -
EXECUTIVE ORDER 8802 (FDR)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
June 25 , 1941 -
CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY (CORE)
James Farmer
1942 Chicago,IL -
BLACK PANTHERS/HUEY NEWTON
A revolutionary African-American political activist , A fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966 -
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9981 (HST)
President Harry S. Truman
July 26, 1948 -
BROWN vs. BOE TOPEKA,KS
American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
EMMETT TILL DEATH
a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
Born:July 25, 1941 -
GREENSBORO 4
a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States -
KENNEDY-NIXON DEBATES
Democrat United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. -
FREEDOM RIDERS ATTACK IN ANNISTON,AL
brutally attacked by violent, well-armed and organized mobs of Klansman and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala -
BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S CRUSADE
a protest march by thousands of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, from May 2-5, 1963. -
I HAVE A DREAM/MLK SPEECH
Where MLK called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. -
ASSASSINATION OF JFK
November 22, 1963, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX -
CHANEY,GOODMAN,and SCHWERNER MURDERS IN MS
also known as the Freedom Summer murders ,the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, 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. Mar 7, 1965 – Mar 21, 1965 -
WATTS RIOTS
On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving -
ASSASSINATION OF MLK
St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis -
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP COUNCIL/JAMES LAWSON
the Vanderbilt Divinity School student who was expelled in 1960 over his leadership in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins. -
ASSASSINATION OF RFK
Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA -
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.
