"The Butler" & Civil Rights Movement

By Taylor Acfalle

  • NAACP

    NAACP
    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States.

  • UNIA

    UNIA
    The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Mosiah Garvey

  • Little Rock Central H.S. AR

    Little Rock Central H.S. AR
    Little Rock Central High School is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.

  • Executive Order 8802(FDR)

    Executive Order 8802(FDR)
    Executive Order 8802 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry.

  • CORE

    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.

  • Executive Order 9981 (HST)

    Executive Order 9981 (HST)
    Executive Order 9981 is an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman.

  • Brown vs. BOE TOPEKA, KA

    Brown vs. BOE TOPEKA, KA
    the racial segregation in public schools that violated the Fourteenth amendment.

  • Emmit Till

    Emmit Till
    Was a 14 year old African-American who was lynched after being accused of offending a white woman.

  • Southern Christian Leadership Council/James Lawson

    Southern Christian Leadership Council/James Lawson
    Was formed in 1957 just after the Montgomery Bus Boycott had ended.

  • Greensboro 4

    Greensboro 4
    Were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro.

  • Kennedy-Nixon Debates

    Kennedy-Nixon Debates
    In a closely contested election, Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee.

  • Freedom Riders Attack in Annistion, AL

    Freedom Riders Attack in Annistion, AL
    Freedom Riders were brutally attacked by violent, well-armed and organized mobs of Klansman and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala.

  • Birmingham Children's Crusade

    Birmingham Children's Crusade
    The Children's March was a protest march by thousands of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, from May 2-5, 1963.

  • I have a dream/MLK SPEECH

    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.

  • Assassination of JFK

    Assassination of JFK
    November 22, 1963, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX

  • Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Murders in MS

    Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Murders in MS
    The murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County, Miss., inspired the movie Mississippi Burning.

  • Selma Voting Rights March

    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.

  • Watts Riots

    Watts Riots
    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.

  • Black Panthers/Huey Newton

    Black Panthers/Huey Newton
    The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California by college students Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

  • Assassination of MLK

    Assassination of MLK
    April 4, 1968, St. Joseph's Hospital, Memphis

  • Assassination of Rfk

    Assassination of Rfk
    June 6, 1968, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, CA

  • Southern Poverty Law Center

    Southern Poverty Law Center
    The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.