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Southern Manifesto
A.K.A Declaration of Constitutional Principles was a document written in opposition to racial integration of public places during 1956. -
SNCC founded
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The organization grew with many supporters from the North that helped raise founds to support SNCC allowing full-time SNCC workers to have a $10 per week salary. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into southern U.S in 1961, to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia. -
Letter from Bermingham Jail
A.K.A "The Negro Is Your Brother", is an letter written by Martin Luther King. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. -
Medgar Evers murdered
Evers was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in the overturn of segregation at the University of Mississippi. He was a field secretary for the NAACP. Assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, member of the White Citizens' Council. -
24th Amendment passes
24th Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act is a piece of civil rights legislation in the U.S which outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.It also ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, workplaces and by facilities that served public accommodations. -
MLK Assassinated
MKL was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. -
Murder in Mississippi
It's a 1990 Movie which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists (Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney), and the events leading to their disappearance and murder in 1964. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reported flirting with a white woman.
