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committee on civil rights
The President's Committee on Civil Rights (PCCR) was established by Executive Order 9808, which Harry Truman, who was then President of the United States -
Jackie Robinson
Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base -
Pressey v. Ferguson
served as a controlling judicial precedent until it was overturned by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954 -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Attorneys General of the states requiring or permitting segregation in public education will also be permitted to appear as amici curiae upon request to do so by September 15, 1954, and submission of briefs by October 1, 1954. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional -
Clyde Kennard
Kennard wrote a detailed letter to the local newspaper, the Hattiesburg American, in which he announced his intention to enroll at Mississippi Southern for the January quarter. -
Phillip Randolph
Randolph organized the Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington to support civil rights efforts in the South, and in 1957 and 1958 he organized a Youth March for Integrated Schools. -
Governor Faubus
Faubus used the national Guard to stop African Americans from attending Little Rock Central High School as part of the frderally ordered rsacial desegration -
Elizabeth Eckford
Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The integration came as a result of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. -
assassination of martin luther king jr
shot and mortally wounded as he stood on the second-floor balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. at St. Joseph Hospital. -
Arrest of Martin Luther King in Alabama
King was arrested for violating a state circuit court injunction against protests, after having led a march the same day. King is placed in solitary confinement in the Birmingham jail where he will soon write "Letter From Birmingham Jail." -
Anne Moody
among the students from historically black Tougaloo College who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Jackson, Miss. -
Klu Klux Klan
the Klan fought the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Under attack in state and federal courts, in a racially changed and disapproving South, the Klan hangs on —marginally, but still violent. And killed 3 activists. -
First civil rights act
A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public -
Voying 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 under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. -
James Meredith
became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, is shot by a sniper shortly after beginning a lone civil rights march through the South -
Black Panthers
core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality in Oakland, California. -
Black power movements
The peaceful Civil Rights Movement was dealt a severe blow in the spring of 1968. On the morning of April 4, King was gunned down by a white assassin named James Earl Ray. Riots spread through American cities as African Americans mourned the death of their most revered leader. -
Second Civil Rights
A landmark part of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin and made it a federal crime to “by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone … by reason of their race, color, religion, or national origin.” The Act was signed into law during the King assassination riots by President Lyndon B. Johnso
