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America's oldest and largest civil rights organization, founded in 1909 to fight against racial discrimination and advocate for the rights of African Americans. -
he was the first pro black baseball player -
State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act of protest was considered the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement. -
aimed to protect voting rights and established the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department, empowering federal prosecutors to seek injunctions against voter intimidation. -
a few black kids went to central for the first time in school history it was a very hard time for these kids tho -
a series of interstate bus trips organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1961 to challenge segregation in interstate bus terminals and buses, with the goal of integrating public transportation in the South. -
The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro -
a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement, held on August 28, 1963, where over 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans -
arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, for leading a nonviolent protest against segregation, which led to him writing his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, a landmark piece of legislation that outlawed segregation in public accommodations and banned discrimination in employment, education, and federally assisted programs, a key step in the fight for civil rights. -
the violent attack on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge -
prohibited states from imposing qualifications or practices to deny the right to vote on account of race -
he was shot and killed at a Memphis hotel