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Civil Rights
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NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the equality of rights to blacks, politically, educationally, socially, and economically. -
Malcolm X
African American leader and figure in the Nation of Islam. He enforced concepts of race pride and black nationalism -
Martin Luther King Jr.
American Baptist minister and activist who was an important leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He was assassinated in 1968. -
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality an African-American civil rights organization in the United States. Founded on the University of Chicago campus. -
Black Panthers and Huey Newton
Huey Newton was an African American activist known for founding the Black Panther Party in 1966. The Black Panther movement radicalized the civil rights campaign in America. -
Jim Crow Laws
Name of the racial caste system that operated the southern part of the country. It legalized segregation between whites and blacks. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Ended legal segregation in public schools. Also a civil rights milestone. -
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference had the goal of "redeeming the soul of America" through nonviolence. Establish to coordinate the action of local protest groups in the South. -
Little Rock Nine
Group of nine of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. The students were initially prevented from entering the segregated school after the Little Rock Crisis. -
Greensboro Woolworth Sit-ins
Famous lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, NC.This sparked a sit-in movement that spread to college towns throughout the region. -
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement. It gave younger backs more of a voice. Emerged from a student meeting organized and held at Shaw University -
James Meredith and Ole Miss
A legal battle in which African-american attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Chaos broke out on the campus which resulted in two dead and hundreds wounded with others arrested. -
Lyndon B. Johnson's Role in the Civil Rights Movement
President Johnson called for the immediate passage of civil rights legislation to honor Kennedy who was assassinated. He signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. -
John F. Kennedy's Role in the Civil Rights Movement
Kennedy tried not to get too involved in the situation at hand. He was not automatically associated with civil rights issues and no obvious civil rights legislation was signed by Kennedy. He moved cautiously on segregation but he did deliver the Civil Rights Address. -
24th Amendment
Prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, or origin -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Aimed to overcome legal barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th amendment -
Black Power and Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael was a U.S. Civil rights activist who originated the black nationalism slogan "black power". -
Kerner Comisison
National Advisory Commission in Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) after the Governor Otto Kerner, was an 11 member commission established to investigate the causes of race riots in the US and provide recommendations. -
Assassination of MLK Jr.
James Earl Ray, a confirmed racist and small-time criminal, had been planning the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King standing on the balcony outside his second story room at Lorraine Motel in in Memphis in April and confessed to the crime the following March.
