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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
http://onevotesncc.org/stories/story-sncc/ The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced /ˈsnɪk/ snick) was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. -
The southern manifesto
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.html The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, is published in London by a group of German-born revolutionary socialists known as the Communist League. -
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Plessy v Ferguson
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/163us537 The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy -- who was seven-eighths Caucasian -- took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. -
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Jackie Robinson
http://www.biography.com/people/jackie-robinson-9460813 Jackie Robinson was known breaking the color barrier when he became a MLB player in the 20th century(His number is 42) but he was named Rookie of the Year that year, National League MVP in 1949 and a World Series champ in 1955. -
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Malcolm X Assassinated
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm-x-assassinated black leader who, as a key spokesman for the Nation of Islam, epitomized the "Black Power" philosophy. By the early 1960s, he had grown frustrated with the non-violent, integrated struggle for civil rights and worried that blacks would ultimately lose control of their own movement. -
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Medger Evers
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In 1954, he became the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. As such, he organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations, and economic boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. Who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and to enact social justice and voting rights. He was murdered by a segregationist. -
James Meredith
www.biography.com/people/james-meredith-9406314 James Howard Meredith is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran.He joined the military after high school and attended an all-black college before becoming the first black student at the University of Mississippi in 1962. After he graduated, Meredith earned a law degree and became involved in politics. He lives in Jackson, Mississippi, and continues to be active in civil rights. -
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
http://www.congressofracialequality.org/core-facts.html is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States 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. Its stated mission is "to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or ethnic background. -
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Sweatt v Painte
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/339us629 In 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt, a black man, applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School. State law restricted access to the university to whites, and Sweatt's application was automatically rejected because of his race. When Sweatt asked the state courts to order his admission, the university attempted to provide separate but equal facilities for black law students. -
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Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/347us483 This case was the consolidation of four cases arising in separate states relating to the segregation of public schools on the basis of race. In each of the cases, African American minors had been denied admittance to certain public schools based on laws allowing public education to be segregated by race. They argued that such segregation violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_montgomery_bus_boycott_1955_1956.1.html The Montgomery bus boycott, a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
http://nationalsclc.org/about-us/history The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Little Rock - Central High School (Little Rock Nine)
https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ak1.htm The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Greensboro Sit in
http;//www.americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-2.html The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Freedom Rides
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides a group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The Freedom Riders, who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a U.S. civil rights group, departed from Washington, D.C., and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the Deep South. -
Letters From Birmingham Jail
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html Image result for letters from birmingham jail
The Letter from Birmingham Jail, also known as the Letter from Birmingham City Jail and The Negro Is Your Brother, is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. -
March on Washington
https://www.infoplease.com/spot/marchonwashington.html The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Catalyst to pass Civil Rights Act of 1964 200,000 to 300,000 people participated "I Have a Dream" speach Delivered By Martian Luther King Jr. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/1963-birmingham-church-bombing-fast-facts/ The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the church. -
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxiv 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 or other tax.
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Mississippi Freedom Summer
www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-4294963805...R... Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. ... Most of the impetus, leadership, and financing for the Summer Project came from the SNCC. -
Civil Rights Act Passed
www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
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Selma To Montgomery march
kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/.../enc_selma_to_montgomery_march/ The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.he freedom march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. In early 1965, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) made Selma, Alabama, the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. -
Voting Rights Act Approved
www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act The Voting Rights Act, 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. -
Black Panthers
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/ BPP was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982 In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. -
King Assassinated
www.biography.com/people/james-earl-ray-20903161 James Earl Ray was born in Alton, Illinois, on March 10, 1928. A confirmed racist and small-time criminal, Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March.
