Civil Rights Movements
A massive event that took place at the Lincoln Memorial
March on Washington
President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and gave a speech in the Washington march
Martin Luther King Jr.
A 1965 legislation was made to overcome local states and cities that prevented African Americans from voting.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The city where Medgar Evers was assassinated
Jackson, Mississippi
A civil rights campaign that took place in the most segregated U.S. cities.
Brimingham Campaign
Civil rights activist who co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and is famous for saying, "sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Fannie Lou Hamer
An act that was made in 1968, right after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the act forbade discrimination in sales, rentals, and housing financing.
Fair Housing Act
9 black students faced a violent mob in a high school in Arkansas for attempting to integrate the school, and also became the center of attention on a national level.
Little Rock High School
A 1964 Campaign that focused on increasing black voter registration, college students were involved, and had a violent backlash that murdered 3 activists.
Freedom Summer
A civil rights attorney who argued in the Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court and some time after became the first African American justice on the Court.
Thurgood Marshall
An act that introduced federal penalties for anyone blocking someone's attempt to register to vote and allowed federal inspection of local voter registration.
Civil Rights Act of 1960
The city and state where 4 young black girls were killed in a church bombing
Brimingham, Alabama