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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded on Februrary 12th, 1909. This group was put together by African Americans in order to end racial discrimination. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball. He was born on Jan. 31st 1919 and he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers -
Executive Order 9981
Executive Order 9981 was issued on July 26th, 1948 and stated that everyone should be given equal treatment in the armed forces. This order ended racial discrimination in the armed forces. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Ended racial segragation in schools. The supreme court unanimously declaired that having two separate schools for black and white children was unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passanger on Decenber 1, 1956. She was arrested on the spot. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was an event in the U.S Civil rights movement, it was a protest against the racial segregation policy on busses in Montgomery, Alabama. It lasted until Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1st, 1956. -
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a group promoting civil rights but in a peaceful manner. Martin Luther King Jr. was the first president of the SCLC. This association was created just after the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
Sit-ins
February 1, 1960 was the first sit in. Sit ins were peaceful prostests used to show that racial inequality still exsisted. African-Americans would go to whites only areas and asked to be served. They would sit quietly until the store closed or they were arrested. -
Freedom Riders
They were a radically mixed group that left Washington DC for New Orleans on May 4, 1961. They mixed their seating so that Blacks sat in the White spot and Whites sat in the Black spots. They were met with a lot of violence along the way and they succeeded in raising awareness for civilrights, eventhough they never made it to New Orleans. -
A. Philip Randolph
Asa Philip Randolph was a leader in the civil-rights movement. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first mostly black labor union. Randolph also pressured Truman to abolish racial segragation in the armed forces in 1948. He also led the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. -
March on Washington
This was one of the largest campaigns for civil rights in United States history. 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial to listen to Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous “I Have a Dream” speach. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, and sex. This was passed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and won the Nobel Prize on October 14, 1964. He used nonviolent methods to protest inequality. He gave his "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963 and was assasinated in 1968. -
Black Power
Black Power is a political slogan and name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African Black descent. This movement emphisized racial pride and a creation of a black political system in the 60's and 70's. -
Malcom X
He was a human rights activist and a Muslum minister. People have said that he is one of the most influential African Americans in history. He was assasinated on this day after he announced his break from the nation of Islam. -
Black Panther
The Black Panther party was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the US from 1966-1982. They were organized on October 15th, 1966. They agreed with Malcom X's ideas that a revolution was needed to get equality. -
Thurgood Marshall
He served from October 1967 until October 1991 in United States Supreme Court. He was the first African American Supreme Court Justice and he was a lawyer in the Brown vs. the Board of Education case.
