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Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party. They have been administered by the Democratic National Committee since the 1852 national convention. -
Leadership Conference
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is the nation's oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights coalition. -
Sweatt v. Painter
Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629, was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Keys v. Carolina Coach
Sarah Keys Evans refused to give up her seat on a state-to-state charter bus, prompting the landmark court case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company. -
Emmett Till’s Murder
Emmett Till was accused of catcalling a white women. Days later he was kidnapped by white men, dragged to a river, and brutally murdered. His body was later disposed into that river. -
Creation of the Montgomery Improvement
in Montgomery, Alabama as a grassroots movement to fight for civil rights for African Americans and specifically for the desegregation of the buses in Alabama's capitol city. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest against the racial segregation policy on public transit systems. It was a monumental protest during the Civil RIghts movement -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The act established the civil rights section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. SCLC is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., who had a large role in the American civil rights movement. -
Cooper v. Aaron
Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which denied the school board of Little Rock, Arkansas the right to delay racial desegregation for 30 months. -
Greensboro Sit-In
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of protests. One of them was where a group of African American teens sat at a white-only lunch counter In NC's Woolworth's store. And they continued to sit at white-only tables over time. -
Little Rock Nine Crisis
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Central Highschool. The students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus. -
The Freedom Rides
The Freedom Rides were a series of political protests that were against segregation by black and whites that rode buses together in the American South in 1961. The U.S. supreme court banned segregation in interstate bus travel. -
Albany Campaign
The Albany movement was a desegregation and voters' coalition. It aimed to end all forms of racial segregation. Many people began to believe that it had failed because it did not achieve many concessions from the local government. -
Integration of the University of Mississippi
Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith. -
The Birmingham Campaign
It was an American movement created by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Bringing attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham. -
Assassination of Medgar Evars
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist. He was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith. -
March on Washington for Jobs and
The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. It was also held for jobs and freedom. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a volunteer campaign in the U.S. to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
heart of Atlanta motel vs. us
The Supreme Court held that the government could enjoin private businesses from discriminating on the basis of race under the Commerce Clause. It also upheld the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which allowed Congress to regulate private businesses if they affected commerce. -
March from Selma to Montgomery
hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama to march to the capital city of Montgomery. They marched to make sure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was assassinated during a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. He was only 39 years old. He left behind his wife and his six young daughters. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many other southern states after the civil war which includes literacy tests. -
James Meredith’s March Against Fear
James Meridith was an activist. He was the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi. He began a solitary walk intending to walk from Memphis to Tennessee Jackson Mississipi to call attention to racism and continued voter discrimination in the South. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel. -
Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States. They were charged with maintaining segregated public schools and defying the Supreme Court's decision to desegregate public schools with "all deliberate speed -
Shirley Chisholm's Presidential Campaign
Shirley Chisholm was the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination. -
Hank Aaron’s Home Run Record
Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing to break the revered record held by Babe Ruth. -
Barbara Jordan’s Address at the
Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. She was the first African-American as well as the first woman to deliver a keynote address at a party’s convention. -
University of California Regents vs. Bakke
Supreme Court case held that a university's admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Northern Violence over School Integration
School Segregation and Integration. The massive effort to desegregate public schools across the United States was a major goal of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Fair Housing Act
The Fair Housing Act made it illegal to discriminate in housing because of their race, color, gender, national origin, etc. The law applies to the sale, rental, and financing of residential housing.