Key Players
Person who refused to give up her seat on the public bus in Montgomery in 1955
Rosa Parks
Legislation made after the Civil War by President Lincoln officially freeing the slaves
Emancipation Declaration
How the white community protested the desegregation of Little Rock High School in 1955.
picket line protesting in front of the school
A white extremist group famous for wearing white sheets and violent racist and intolerant attitudes
Ku Klux Klan
An American Baptist minister who led the civil rights movement through non-violent means
Martin Luther King Jr
What year did Eisenhower's Civil Rights Act come into legislation?
1957
When black people refused to move from a whites-only facility as a form of peaceful protest.
Sit ins
A Marxist-Leninist black power political party
The Black Panther Party
An advocate for Black Empowerment, he was prominent in the civil right's movement until his assassination in 1965
Malcolm X
In response to Rosa Park's experience, African Americans refused to take the buses in Alabama in 1955.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) mounted this legal case when the daughter of Rev Oliver Brown was not allowed to attend the whites-only school in her neighbourhood.
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
Groups of students and activists who travelled in buses to segregated areas to bring attention to the civil rights cause
Freedom Riders
The fourteen year old murdered in Mississippi after allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Emmett Till
In August 1963, many thousands marched on the nation's capital for 'jobs and freedom'.
The March on Washington
Martin Luther King's famous speech which inspired the civil rights movement and foreshadowed his death soon after
"I Have A Dream" speech
This group, led by the likes of Martin Luther King and established in 1942, it used non violence to achieve civil rights.
Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
The person attributed with the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
James Earl Ray
Legislation passed by President Johnson in 1964
Civil Rights Bill