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Stokely Carmichael
a Trinidadian-American political activist best known for leading the civil rights group SNCC in the 1960s. -
Congress of Racial Equality
U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement -
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court ruled that desegregation in schools was not allowed. -
Emmet Till
African AMerican teenaged who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 for reportedly flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans boycotted the public busses in Montgomery, Alamaba in order to acheieve integrated buses. -
SCLC
African American civil rights organization whose first president was Martin Luther King. -
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
THis was a letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while in jail in repsonse to a newspaper article that had been written about him criticizing his ways. -
"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
an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -
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 -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Malcolm X Assassination
Malcolm X was shot to death by Nation of Islam members while speaking at a rally -
Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
around 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma to Montgomery march. State troopers violently attacked the peaceful demonstrators in an attempt to stop the march for voting rights. -
The Voting Rights Act of 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 -
Executive Order 11246—Affirmative Action
prohibits federal contractors and federally-assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, who do over $10,000 in Government business in one year from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Black Panthers
revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982 -
Martin Luther King Assassination
James Earl Ray shot and killed King in Memphis -
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
