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Executive Order 9981
Is an Executive order made by President Truman, It stopped racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
1992 Los Angeles Race Riots
A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till
An African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks
Would not give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus to protest. -
SCLC
An African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement -
Little Rock Nine
Group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock High school. -
SNCC
About forty college students staged a sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter with the intention of integrating eating establishments in Nashville, Tennessee. Their numbers increased daily and although hundreds were arrested, by May, lunch counters in Nashville began to integrate. This non-violent strategy was adopted by black students all over the Deep South. Within six months these sit-ins had ended restaurant and lunch-counter segregation in twenty-six southern cities. -
Woolworth sit-ins
Nonviolent protests with African Americans sitting in a white only diner -
Freedom Rides
Were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. -
James Meredith
First african american to be admitted into a university. -
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of white supremacist terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
“Bull” Connor uses fire hoses on black demonstrators
Bull Connor used fire hoses and police dogs to stop African Americans from protesting. -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
An open letter describing ways to fight racism through non violence. -
March on Washington
Was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. It took place in Washington, D.C..Thousands of Americans headed to Washington on Tuesday August 27, 1963. On Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism. -
24th Amendment
Prohibits Congress and the States from conditioning the right to vote in Federal elections on payment of a poll tax. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
In 1964 the racial discrimination was abolished and no longer admitted. -
Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
These men were murdered by members of the KKK over civil rights movements. -
Malcolm X assassinated
Islam African American that was killed because of his ideals. -
Voting Rights Act 1991
A landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits discrimination in voting. -
Los Angeles Race Riots
Riots to escape the southern mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act 1965
A United States statute that was passed in response to a series of United States Supreme Court decisions which limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination. -
Black Panthers founded
A violent revolutionary gang. -
Loving vs. Virginia
Civil Rights decision made by the Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. -
MLK is assassinated
MLK is assassinated in Memphis, TN -
Executive Order 11246
It created EOE so that all could have jobs. -
Bloody Sunday
26 protesters were shot at by british soldiers.
