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NAT’L ASSOC. FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights -
UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOC
primarily in the United States, organization founded by Marcus Garvey, dedicated to racial pride, economic self-sufficiency, and the formation of an independent black nation in Africa. -
EXECUTIVE ORDER 8802
Executive Order 8802 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. It also set up the Fair Employment Practice Committee. -
CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY
The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement -
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9981
Executive Order 9981 is an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. The executive order eventually led to the end of segregation in the services -
BROWN vs. BOE TOPEKA,KA
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
EMMIT 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 -
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP COUNCIL/JAMES LAWSON
Lawson was asked to chair a committee to draft a statement of purpose for what was now the second southern civil rights organization to come into being, after the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) established by Dr. King following the Montgomery bus boycott. Lawson coordinated three drafts. -
LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL H.S. AR
Little Rock Central High School is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional three years earlier -
GREENSBORO 4
The Greensboro sit-ins were 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 -
FREEDOM RIDERS ATTACK IN ANNISTON,AL
on May 14, 1961, Freedom Riders were brutally attacked by violent, well-armed and organized mobs of Klansmen and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala. The vicious beatings and a firebombing of the Anniston-bound bus by the Ku Klux Klan had the support of local law enforcement and politicians -
BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S CRUSADE
The Children's March was a protest march by thousands of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, from May 2-5, 1963. They left school to march for civil rights. Police officers tried to stop them by using fire hoses and police dogs to attack the children. -
I HAVE A DREAM/MLK SPEECH
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. -
ASSASSINATION OF JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by the initials JFK and Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 -
CHANEY,GOODMAN,& SCHWERNER MURDERS IN MS
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement -
KENNEDY-NIXON DEBATES
The first general election presidential debate was held on September 26, 1960, between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, in Chicago at the studios of CBS's WBBM-TV. It was moderated by Howard K -
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 -
WATTS RIOTS
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving -
ASSASSINATION OF MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 -
ASSASSINATION OF RFK
Robert Francis Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. -
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation
