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Black Power
The black power is a political slogan and name for various associated ideologies aimed a achieving self-determination for people of African descent. It is used by African Americans in the United States. -
Brown vs board of education
The Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public school for black and white students to be unconstitutional on this date. -
Montgomery bus boycott
On this date, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bussed sparked the American Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century. -
SCLC
Southren Christian leadership conference- African American civil rights organization, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin L. King Jr, had a large rule in the American civil rights movement -
Latino movement
This was a Civil Rights movement that extended the Mexican American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment. -
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counterculture
A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at a variance with the prevailing social norm -
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Feminist movement
Also know as Women liberation movement, refers or a series of political campaigns for reform on the issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment, sexual violence, all which fall under the label of feminism -
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Freedom riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate busses into the segregated Southren United States in 1961 in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 Americans gathered at Washington D.C. for a political rally known as the March on Washington for jobs and freedom. This became known as the key moment as the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States. -
civil Rights Act of 1964
The civil Rights act of 1964 is a landmark Civil Rights and US labor laws in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national color. -
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Selma March
Martin Luther king led thousands of non-violent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. -
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Watts riot
A minor roadside argument broke out and then escalated into a fight. Six days of looting and arson followed. 34 people died, there were 1,032 injured, and 3,438 were arrested. -
Bilingual education act
First piece of United States federal legislation that recognized the needs of limited English speaking ability for students. This was the first federal policy for aiding students of LESA -
Martin L. Kings assassination
James Earl shot and killed Martin Luther King. James confessed to the crime the following March. He was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Roe vs Wade
The Roe vs Wade case ruled that abortion was fundamental right protected by the United States constitution... the state could regulate the abortion only in order to protect the slime she health
