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NAT’L ASSOC. FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP)
is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well being of all persons. -
UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOC. (UNIA)
Description The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States. -
LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL H.S. AR
Little Rock Central High School is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional three years earlier. -
EXECUTIVE ORDER 8802 (FDR)
was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry -
CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. And was founded Chicago, IL in 1942 -
BLACK PANTHERS/HUEY NEWTON
Huey Percy Newton was a revolutionary African-American political activist who, along with fellow Merritt College student Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. -
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9981 (HST)
Pres. Harry S. Truman that abolished racial segregation in the U.S. military. Beginning with the initial skirmishes of the American Revolution, African Americans had played an important role in the armed forces of the United States. -
BROWN vs. BOARD OF EDUCATION
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. And it was from December 9th, 1952 - May 17th, 1954 -
EMMIT TILL
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. Was born July 25, 1941 and passed away August 28, 1955 -
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GREENSBORO 4
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States -
KENNEDY-NIXON DEBATES
It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democrat United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. -
FREEDOM RIDERS ATTACK IN ANNISTON,AL
Freedom Riders were brutally attacked by violent, well-armed and organized mobs of Klansman and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala. The vicious beatings and a firebombing of the Anniston-bound bus by the Ku Klux Klan had the support of local law enforcement and politicians. -
BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S CRUSADE
The Children's Crusade. On May 2, 1963, more than one thousand students skipped classes and gathered at Sixth Street Baptist Church to march to downtown Birmingham, Alabama. -
I HAVE A DREAM/MLK SPEECH
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. -
ASSASSINATION OF JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by the initials JFK and Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 -
CHANEY,GOODMAN,& SCHWERNER MURDERS IN MS
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement. -
WATTS RIOTS
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving. And the Watts Riots where from Aug 11, 1965 - Aug 16, 1965 -
SELMA VOTING RIGHTS MARCH
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.It lasted from March 3rd, 1965 till March 21st, 1965 -
ASSASSINATION OF MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 -
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP COUNCIL/JAMES LAWSON
James Lawson Jr. made a significant mark on the history of the Civil Rights movement in Tennessee and in the South. He is best known in Tennessee history as the Vanderbilt Divinity School student who was expelled in 1960 over his leadership in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins. -
ASSASSINATION OF RFK
Robert Francis Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. -
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.
