Events
This event consists of many things, but what you need to know is that lots of activists fought for equality.
What Was Civil Rights Movement
This girl was the first black person to graduate an all-white elementary school
Who Was Ruby Bridges
This person gave the "I have a dream" speech.
Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.
This is one of the most well-known basketball players of all time and to many people the best ever.
Who Was Micheal Jordan
This is where black people didn't ride the bus for 381 days because of Rosa Parks' arrest.
What Was Montgomery Bus Boycott
This girl did the same thing as Rosa Parks, but did it before Rosa. The thing she did was get arrested for not giving her seat on the bus to a white man.
Who Was Claudette Colvin
This person got arrested for sitting on the bus and not getting up for a white man.
Who Was Rosa Parks
This is a very famous black boxer and is known to many as the greatest (that's his nickname)
Who Was Muhammad Ali
This is where the event known as "Bloody Sunday" took place.
What Was Edmund Pettus Bridge
This person took place in the march of Bloody Sunday and the march to Montgomery
Who Was Lynda Blackmon Lowery
This person helped stop school segregation and was a lawyer, who made it on to the Supreme Court.
Who Was Thurgood Marshall
This was the first black Major League Baseball player and the first black person to play sports with white people.
Who Was Jackie Robinson
This is where one of the main civil rights activists got killed in his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee.
What Was Martin Luther King's Assassination
This person was a slave who bought his freedom, then wrote a book about his experience on a slave ship and also spoke out against slavery.
Who Was Olaudah Equiano
This person was the first black president of the USA.
Who Was Barrack Obama
This person is one of the best female tennis players in the world, in fact they were ranked number one in singles at one point.
Who Was Serena Williams
This is when a black group that believed in raising their arms (weaponry) and fighting against racism was formed/founded.
What Was The Black Panther Party Founding
This person got beaten to death (to the point where he was unrecognizable) at the age of 14 by a few white men and then was thrown in a river.
Who Was Emmett Till
This person founded the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE).
Who Was James Farmer
This person was the first black person to play in the NBA.
Who Was Earl Lloyd