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Medgar Evers
http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers: Evers applied to the University of Mississippi Law School in February 1954. After being rejected, He volunteered to help NAACP try to integrate the university with a lawsuit. -
James Meredith
http://www.biography.com/ He became active in the republican party in the 1960's, He unsuccessfully ran for Adam Adam Clayton Powell Jr.'s in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1967. -
"Letter from Birmingham jail'
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/king/: Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail. While King was in jail, he wrote a letter to the newspaper explaining why he had broken the law. -
March on Washington
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington: In August 1963, more than 200,00 thousand Americans gathered in Washington D.C. The event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans faced across the country. -
Bombing of Birmingham Church
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/birmingham-church-bombing: On September 15, a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama-a church with a predominantly black congregation that served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders. -
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. -
Civil Rights Act Passed
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act: The act 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. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-summer: It aimed at dramatically increasing voter registration in Mississippi. The Freedom Summer, comprised of black Mississippians and more than 1,000 out-of-state, predominantly white volunteers, faced constant abuse and harrassment from Mississippis white population. -
Malcolm X assassinated
http://www.biography.com/people/malcolm-x- At the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where Malcolm X was about to deliver a speech, three gunmen rushed the stage and shot him 15 times at point blank range. Malcolm X was pronounced dead on arrival at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital shortly thereafter. -
Selma to Montgomery March
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march: That March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. As the world watched, the protesters (under the protection of federalized National Guard troops) finally achieved their goal, walking around the clock for three days to reach Montgomery. -
Votin Rights Act Approved
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act: It 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
//www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/: 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
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination1241578: His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era.
