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Nat'l Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People
Org. to pursue s.e.e.p, rights -
UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOC
a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States. -
EXECUTIVE ORDER 8802
prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. -
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9981
abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. -
EMMIT TILL
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
advance the cause of civil rights in America but in a non-violent manner. -
GREENSBORO 4
a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, -
LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL
nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -
BROWN vs. BOE TOPEKA
establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
KENNEDY-NIXON DEBATES
defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. -
FREEDOM RIDERS ATTACK IN ANNISTON
were brutally attacked by violent, well-armed and organized mobs of Klansmen and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala. -
I HAVE A DREAM/ MLK SPEECH
public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. -
ASSASSINATION OF JFK
Death of JFK -
CHANEY,GOODMAN,& SCHWERNER MURDERS IN MS
Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi -
WATTS RIOTS
an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving.
