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CORE
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Integrate military
Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The 1954 Supreme Court ruling declaring that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Sit-ins
A civil rights protest in which protesters sit down in a public place and refuse to move, thereby causing the business to lose customers. -
Freedom Riders
A civil rights protest in which blacks and whites rode interstate buses together in 1961 to test whether southern states were complying with the Supreme Court ruling against segregation on interstate transport. -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
First African American student to join public all white College -
Birmingham Protest
The protests began on April 3 with lunch-counter sit-ins followed by street demonstrations. Thirty protesters were arrested for marching at Birmingham City Hall without a permit. As leader of the Birmingham campaign, King decided the protests and arrests must continue. With little money to post bail, King realized that he would most likely go to jail and stay there for a while. King and 50 others demonstrated and were quickly arrested. -
March on Washington
A 1963 protest in which more than 250,000 people demonstrated in the nation's capital for "jobs and freedom" and the passage of civil rights legislation. -
Freedom Summer
A 1964 campaign by CORE and SNCC to register black voters in Mississippi -
Civil Rights Acts 1964
A landmark act that banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin; the most important civil rights law since Reconstruction -
Selma March
Selma was the center of a registration drive for black voters, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
an act of Congress outlawing literacy tests and other tactics that had long been used to deny African Americans the right to vote -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.
