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William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois
Is most famous for the founding the Niagara Movement in 1905 and co-founding the National Associates for the advancement of colored people(NAACP). He was one of the most important leaders of African-American protest in the United States. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr was the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all. He was famous for using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice. He also did all he could to make people realize that "all men are created equal." -
Sit ins
Students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond and Ezell Blair Jr., sat down at the counter of a Woolsworth and asked to be served, they knew the wouldnt be because their black. But the refused to move until the store closed. The key during the sit-ins was nonviolence if students were hit, they couldn't hit back. If they were taunted, they remained silent. -
Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka
The Court ruled that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional. The Brown case served as a reason for the modern civil rights movement, inspiring education reform everywhere and forming the legal means of challenging segregation in all areas of society. -
Emmit Till
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, are arrested for the murder. They later boast about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. The case becomes a cause of the civil rights movement. -
Boycott/ Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated -
SCLC
Martin Luther King jr. and two others established the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) which became a major part in organizing the civil rights movement. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students start to attend an all white shcool (Central High School) are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine." -
Freedom Riders
a racially mixed group of people left Washington, D.C., on a bus and headed for New Orleans, La. Along the way, groups mixed up their seating -- whites moved to the blacks-only section and vice versa. They knew what they were doing was perfectly legal according to recent Supreme Court cases, but they also knew they'd meet heavy opposition from the public. -
March On Washington
The March On Washington was a mass march on Washington, D.C., it was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans. This event was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in U.S history and called for civil and economic rights for blacks.Thousands of Americans headed to Washington. -
16th Street Church Bombing
On a Sunday morninga bomb exploded before services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama a church with a black congregation that was a meeting place for civil rights leaders. Becasue of the bomb four young girls were killed and many other people injured. Protesters had hard-fought, often dangerous struggle for civil rights for African Americans. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The movement that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. It ended unequal application of voters rights and racial segregation in schools, at work and other public places. -
James Meredith
He was the first African American admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi,
