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Brown vs Board of Education
a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the “Separate but Equal” doctrine and outlawed the ongoing segregation in schools. -
Emmet Till
14 year old kid was killed and caused a spark in the upsurge of activism and resistance that became known as the Civil Rights movement. -
Rosa Parks and Bus Boycott
Parks rejected a bus driver's order to leave a row of four seats in the "colored" section once the white section had filled up and move to the back of the bus. Her defiance sparked a successful boycott of buses in Montgomery a few days later. -
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), nonsectarian American agency that coordinate and assist local organizations working for the full equality of African Americans -
Little Rock 9
the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School. -
Greensboro 4
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Student nonviolent coordinating committee and freedom summer
volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi -
Freedom riders
groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminal -
March on Washington
the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought over 200,000 people to the nation's capitol to protest racial discrimination and show support for civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress -
Civil rights act
The act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels -
March on Selma
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 -
Voting rights act
aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution