-
Period: to
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued until 1965. -
Period: to
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued until 1965. Link to picture: http://altoarizona.com/images/segregation-drinking-fountain.jpg -
Period: to
NAACP
The NAACP or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of “people of color.” -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who first rose to prominence as leader of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott challenging segregated public transportation.
Lived: January 15, 1929—April 4, 1968 -
CORE
The CORE, or 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. CORE was one of the "Big Four" civil rights organizations (along with the SCLC, the SNCC, and the NAACP). -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Jim Crow Law Picture
-
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. -
Period: to
SCLC
The SCLS or Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Greensboro Woolworth Sit-ins
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. -
SNCC
The SNCC, or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. -
James Meredith and Ole Miss
James Howard Meredith was a Civil Rights Movement figure and Air Force veteran. 'Ole miss' was a term slaves used to refer to the wife of the plantation owner.
The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 30, 1962; segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, a black US military veteran, at the University of Mississippi. -
John F. Kennedy's Role in the Civil Rights Movement
Americans were watching all this unfold on TV and many were horrified at what was happening in our country. Pressure was strong for the federal government to take action. President Kennedy sends troops to the South to stop the violence. James Meredith becomes the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. An ensuing riots leaves two dead and 375 injured. -
24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America abolished the poll tax for all federal elections. A poll tax was a tax of anywhere from one to a few dollars that had to be paid annually by each voter in order to be able to cast a vote. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African-American political leader of the twentieth century. A prominent Black Muslim, Malcolm X explained the group's viewpoint in a book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He was assassinated in 1965. -
Lyndon B. Johnson's Role in the Civil Rights Movement
President Kennedy did not get to see desegregation. He was assassinated in 1963, but his vice president, Lyndon Johnson continued his goals of equality in America. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race, religion, or national origin. (March 20, 1965) -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people. -
Black Power and Stokely Carmichael
Black Power was a movement in support of rights and political power for black people, especially prominent in the US in the 1960s and 1970s. Stokely Carmichael was a civil rights activist and national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1966 and 1967. He is credited with popularizing the term "Black Power." In May 1966, SNCC elected Stokely Carmichael its national chairman. -
Black Panthers and Huey Newton
Dr. Huey Percy Newton was an African-American political activist and revolutionary. In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. -
Kerner Commission
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr., was an 11-member commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order 11365 to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide recommendations for the future. (February 29, 1968) -
Assassination of MLK, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was assassinated by James Earl Ray, a confirmed racist and small-time criminal, Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March. -
NAACP Picture
-
SCLC Picture
