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A. Phillip Randolph
Randolph organized and led the march on Washington Movement which convinced Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802 banning discrimation in the defense industries during WWii. It was estimated that the march would draw 100,000 people to the capitol. -
Committe on Civil Rights
Committee on Civil Rights was established by Executive order 9808. The committee was instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them. -
Brown VS. The Board Of Education
The Court ruled that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional. The Brown case served as a catalyst for the modern civil rights movement, inspiring education reform everywhere and forming the legal means of challenging segregation in all areas of society. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African-American seamstress Rosa Parks was returning home from her job she was seated in the front row of the “colored section.” When the white seats filled, the driver, J. Fred Blake asked Parks and three others to give up their seats. The other African-American riders complied, but Parks refused. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1QZik4CYtgw -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson joined the NAACP and became the chairman of the Freedom Fund drive that would raised more than a million dollars. -
Governor Faubus
Faubus was known for his stand against desegration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. He desegretagated state buses and public transportation and began to investigate the possibility of indroducing muti-racial schools. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QT7iq4c3SNo -
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Ann Eckford made history as a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zx7nI9pS5E -
Samuel O'Quinn
O’Quinn was murdered because he had joined the NAACP and was preparing to engage in civil rights activity in Wilkinson. -
James Meredith
James Meredith is a civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. -
Arrest of Martin Luther King
King was arrested for violating a state circuit court injunction against protests, after having led a march the same day. King was placed in solitary confinement in the Birmingham jail where he soon wrote"Letter From Birmingham Jail." -
Anne Moody
Anne Moody was among the students from historically black Tougalou College who stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's luch counter in downtown Jackson MS. -
Klu Klux Klan (KKK)
The Klan's had a hatred against African Americans the bombing, murders and other attacks they did took many lives including, four young girls they killed while preparing for Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. -
First Civil Rights Act
It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. -
Black Panthers
The Black Panthers believed that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luther King had failed and any promised changes to their lifestyle via the ‘traditional’ civil rights movement, would take too long to be implemented or simply not introduce -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr., was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39. -
Black Power movement at its peak
One of the most spectacular and unexpected demonstrations for Black Power occurred first at the Summer Olympics. At the conclusion of the 200m race, United States gold medalist wore Olympic Project for Human Rights badges and showed the raised fist -
Second Civil Rights Act
The 1960 Civil Rights Act introduced penalties to be levied. The second Civil Rights Act was against anybody who obstructed someone’s attempt to register to vote or someone’s attempt to actually vote. -
Clyde Kennard
Clyde Kennard was an American civil rights pioneer and martyr from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and a Korean War veteran.
