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Malcolm X
Malcolm Little was also known as Malcolm X. Malcolm was an African-American leader in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and the 1960s. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was forced to death in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white man on a bus. Four days later, The Montgomery bus boycott began. It was a 13-month protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis. -
Freedom Riders
A group of northern idealists (a person who believes in the theory of idealism) in the civil rights movement. The Freedom Riders, who included both blacks and whites, rode buses into the South in the early 1960s in order to challenge racial segregation. Freedom Riders were regularly attacked by mobs of angry whites and received often belated protection from federal officers. -
March On Washington
The March on Washington took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by about 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage. This march was hit the top point (climax) in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirited call for racial justice and equality. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi, part of a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the Congress on Racial Equality and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to expand black voting in the South. -
Selma to Montgomery March
A march led by Martin Luther King, who led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, had been campaigning for voting rights. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, 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 to the Constitution of the United States of America.
