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NAACP
Make Higher education for those who needed it. -
Malcom X
Known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. -
Nation of Islam
Was a religious movement and organization founded in 1930 that combines black nationalism with Islamic teachings. Helped blacks from suffereing. -
Sit-in Movement
When four black students from North Carolina A&T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. -
Freedom Rides
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. -
Albany & Biringham
Was a nonviolence with nonviolence organization. That was slow going. -
Freedom Summer
-University campuses did training
-Three students disappeared
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Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation. He was later shot in his driveway. -
March on Washington
Was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans -
16th Birmingham Church Bombed
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American. Four girls in the ladies lounge were instantly killed in the church when it happened. -
JFK Assassination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
Voting Rights Act
Signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote -
The March Against Fear
James Meredith was shot the second day ,SCLC & King, SNCC & Carmichael -
Black Panther Party
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party -
Fair houseing Act
It is a federal act in the United States intended to protect the buyer or renter of a dwelling from seller or landlord discrimination.
