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Committee On Civil Rights
The PCCR was established by Executive Order 9808, which Harry Truman, who was then president of the U.S., issued it. -
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The Klu Klux Klan
The Supreme Court handed down its historic descision on school segregation. In the 1960s,The Klans functioned as a clandestine. -
Brown V Board of Education Of Topeka Kansas
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown V Board of Education in Topeka Kansas.It helped break the back of state sponsored segregation and provided a spark to the American Civil Rights movement. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Arrest of Martin Luther King in Alabama
King was indicted by the Montgomery county Grand Jury for his boycott of the Montgomery City Lines,Inc. -
Second Civil Rights Act
An act to enforce the constitutional right to vote. -
James Meredith
He is a civil right activist.He met and married Mary Jane Wiggins while serving in the U.S. Military. -
Jackie Robinson
He starred hisself in a biographical film "The Jackie Robinson Story" in which he played himself.He retired from baseball after playing his last game.He helped the Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees. -
Governor Faubus
Faubus explained that he had called the national guardmen because he had heard that white supremacists from all over the state were descending on little rock. -
Elizabeth Eckford
Elizbeth put on her new dress,made by her, and made her way to Little Rock Central High School.She and eight other African American students (known as the Little Rock Nine) made an unsuccessful attempt to enter Little Rock Central High School,which had been segregated. -
Samuel O'Quinn
He was a successful businessman and father of 11 children in Centreville,(Wilkinson County). He was a graduate of the Tuskegee Institute. -
Anne Moody
She was an African American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in Rural Mississippi. -
First Civil Rights Act
It was a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls. -
Plessey V Ferguson
Black and whites drunk from separate fountains and coolers. It separated blacks from whites. -
Clyde Kennard
Kennard was arrested on a false charge of stealing. He died from cancer after his release from prison. -
A. Phillip Randolph
He was a principal organizer of the 1963 march on washington.Randolph died in new york city in 1979. -
Black Power Movement at its peak
It emerged at a time when the modern civil rights movement was in its final stage as a viable movement for socal,political,and economic changes. -
Voting Rights Act
It is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination.It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Black Panthers
They were founded in Oakland,Caifornia. They were a black nationalists and socialist organization active in the U.S. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Shock waves reverberated around the world with the news that U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King had been assassinated. His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black americans.
