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Russell Means and a group called the American Indian Movement (AIM) gained control of Wounded Knee. The AIM began to protest the reservations government which was led by Dickie Wilson. The AIM clai...
A controversial and much debated amendment, the Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed in the U.S. Congress in 1923. Since that time, it has been introduced in Congress on several occasions, m...
Alcatraz was an island prison from in use from 1933 to 1963 where the most dangerous prisoners were located. In 1969, six years after it was out of use, native americans went to occupy it to show...
At 6:01 pm, april 4, 1968, Dr. King was standing on his balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel and a shot was fired. He was hit and wounded in a large portion of his jaw and neck. This incident ...
The Detroit riots were the most violent of seven riots in the Civil Rigths Movement; it lasted for for days, 43 people were killed and over 4,000 people were arrested or detained. It was started wh...
This landmark Supreme Court decision ended the legal restraint against interracial marriages in the United States. Both residents of Caroline County, Virginia, the Lovings had to be married in the ...
La Raza Unida originally formed from Chicano disagreement over the Democratic Party's decisions. The group believed President Johnson's programs and policies were aimed solely to benefit African Am...
La Raza Unida originally formed from Chicano disagreement over the Democratic Party's decisions. The group believed President Johnson's programs and policies were aimed solely to benefit African Am...
La Raza Unida originally formed from Chicano disagreement over the Democratic Party's decisions. The group believed President Johnson's programs and policies were aimed solely to benefit African Am...
La Raza Unida originally formed from Chicano disagreement over the Democratic Party's decisions. The group believed President Johnson's programs and policies were aimed solely to benefit African Am...
On August 11 a riot broke out in an African-American ghetto known as Watts located in Los Angeles, California. Over the course of one week, 34 people were killed and over 1,000 injured as masses of...
The voting rights act of 1965 prevented literary and other types of tests that were meant to prevent blacks from voting. This bill was pushed through congress by President Johnson. This was a very ...
After an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Malcolm X's family in their New York home seven days earlier, his enemies finally succeded at a speech at Manhattan's Audobon Ballroom on February 21,...
The council of Federated Organizations launched a campaign in 1964 that was meant to increase voter registration in Mississippi. The campaign was met by whites with extreme violence that lasted th...
The March on Washington was a peaceful poilitical rally that took place in Washington D.C. At this rally, over 200,000 participants of a motley of races, joined at Lincoln Memorial to hear MLK deli...
At the age of 37, Medgar Evers was shot in the back while walking up his front steps. Byron De La Beckwiths, (member of the ku klux klan) fingerprints were found on the gun used in the murder. He w...
The Equal Pay Act was enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives. This act prohibited gender discrimination in the payment of wages. -Alexandra Picture from: http://www.americanhistory.a...
Martin Luther King led a protest march in Birmingham, Alabama that not only consisted of adults, but also school children. At the time, Birmingham was one of the most racially segregated towns in t...
James Meredith was a black American born in the south in 1933. He served in the US Military for 9 years in the 50s before deciding to go to college to complete a degree. After attending Jackson S...
The Freedom Riders were both black and white people who traveled to the South from the North on buses in 1961 and were a part of the Congress of Racial Equality. They protested racial segregation i...
The Greensboro Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
The Greenhouse Sit-ins was, four African American college, and they led a wave of civil rights demonstrations. The students were Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond. The...
Nine African American students started attending Little Rock High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They were the first children to start going to an all white school. The govenor of Arkansas, Gover...
On this day Rosa Parks and a few other African-Americans were on a bus when a group of whites came on. The bus driver told them to move anad all of them did, except Rosa. She was arrested and sent ...
Protests broke out for the slaying of Emmett Till. The NAACP joined the riots in a huge anti-lynching ani-racial brutality protest. Emmett
Emmett was tortured, beaten, shot in the head and lynched because of the two words he said to a white women. "Bye, baby." This led to riots of anti-lynching due to the pure brutality of his murder....
This landmark Supreme Court decision overturned the separate but equal doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson by saying that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The decision came as a...
He dropped out of school at the age of 15, and soon after he was sent to jail for theft. Upon, his release, he dedicates himself to the nation of Islam after studying it while in jail. He would soo...
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