Unsung Heroes
This Mississippi sharecropper became a national voice for voting rights and co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Fannie Lou Hamer
These four college students launched the first major sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960.
Greensboro Four
This 1965 voting rights march turned violent when peaceful protestors were attacked on a bridge in Selma.
Bloody Sunday
This constitutional amendment gives you the right to free speech, peaceful protest, and freedom of the press.
First Amendment
A fearless organizer and strategist, she helped found SNCC and believed in grassroots leadership.
Ella Baker
This group, formed in 1960, became the youth-led vanguard of direct-action civil rights protests.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC
In this state, activists launched Freedom Summer to register Black voters, facing deadly violence.
Mississippi
Passed in 1965, this act banned literacy tests and other tactics used to suppress Black votes
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This openly gay civil rights strategist organized the 1963 March on Washington behind the scenes.
Bayard Rustin
At just 23, he spoke at the March on Washington and later served in Congress for decades.
John Lewis
These dangerous interstate protests tested desegregation laws on public buses in the Deep South.
Freedom Rides
You have the right to equal protection under the law, thanks to this amendment passed after the Civil War.
14th Amendment