Civil Rights

By LyonNgo

  • Stokely Carmichael

    Kwame Touré, formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, was a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement

  • Emmett Louis Till

    Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.

  • The Congress of Racial Equality

    a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, CORE was one of the "Big Four" civil rights organizations, along with the SCLC, the SNCC, and the NAACP.

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

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    Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, which began a chain reaction of similar boycotts throughout the South. In 1956, the Supreme Court voted to end segregated busing. In 1955, a little-known minister named Martin Luther King Jr. led the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery.

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -Organization formed by MLK in 1957
    -Aimed to mobilize the vast power of the black churches on behalf of black rights
    -Trained and tested African Americans for ability to remain calm so they could participate nonviolently in marches and "sit ins"

  • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

    Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) -Organization formed by southern black students in 1960
    -Aimed to give more focus and force to efforts to compel equal treatment in restaurants, transportation, employment, housing and voter registration

  • The 24th Amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax

  • Birmingham jail,

    From the Birmingham jail, where he was imprisoned as a participant in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in longhand the letter which follows. It was his response to a public statement of concern and caution issued by eight white religious leaders of the South.

  • “I Have a Dream” Speech

    "I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

  • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, bombing

    The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

  • Malcolm X Assassination

    dead

  • Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama

    n response, a protest march from Selma to Montgomery was scheduled for March 7. Six hundred marchers assembled in Selma on Sunday, March 7, and, led by John Lewis and other SNCC and SCLC activists, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River en route to Montgomery.

  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965

    signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.

  • Executive Order 11246—Affirmative Action

    signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 24, 1965, established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors.

  • The Black Panthers

    The Black Panther Party or BPP was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with its only international chapter operating in Algeria from 1969 until 1972

  • Martin Luther King Assassination

    he died

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1968

    The Civil Rights Act signed into law in April 1968–popularly known as the Fair Housing Act–prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.