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Malcolm X
was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. -
James Meredith
born June 25, 1933
an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser -
Freedom Riders
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions -
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, KS
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
Argued December 9, 1952
Reargued December 8, 1953
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Emmett Till
African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.
Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam arrived at Till's great-uncle's house where they took Till, transported him to a barn, beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. His body was discov -
Rosa Parks
was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. -
SCLC
African-American civil rights organization
SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Little Rock 9
were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower. -
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committeewas one of the organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s -
Great Society
was a set of domestic programs in the United States announced by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University and subsequently promoted by him and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. -
March on Washington
n August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech, a spirited call for racial justice and equality -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women. -
Selma
is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, Alabama, United States
The city is best known for the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement and its Selma to Montgomery marches, three civil rights marches that began in the city. -
Kerner Commision
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member commission established by President Lyndon B.
Johnson to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide recommendations for the future.
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the commission on July 28, 1967. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin.