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Malcolm X found the religeon of Islam in prison. Nation of Islam was a group of African American Muslims. After he left prison he joined the group and became an active leader and preacher. Since Na...
In February 27 and May 8, 1973, a group of 200 Indians, led by the American Indian Movement assembled at the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre. They demonstrated against the elected council h...
In 1972, as a result of the women’s movement, came Title IX, the law that banned sex discrimination in schools in both athletics and academics. The article stated that, “no person in the United Sta...
In 1972, as a result of the women’s movement, came Title IX, the law that banned sex discrimination in schools in both athletics and academics. The article stated that, “no person in the United Sta...
During a period of 18 months, from November 20, 1969 to June 11, 1971, more than 5,600 American Indians occupied the deserted island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. American Indians went to the i...
King, the leader of the nonviolent civil rights movement in the United States, was assassinated in Memphis, TN, on this day. He was shot while waving to a crowd at the Lorraine Motel. James Earl Ra...
The Newark Riot of 1967 began with the arrest of a cab driver named John Smith, who allegedly drove around a double-parked police car at the corner of 7th St. and 15th Avenue. He was subsequently s...
Loving V.S. Virginia was a landmark Civil Rights case in which the Supreme Court declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation unconstitutional. After this was declared U.C. black and white people could m...
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for self defense and to help fight for the black civil rights movement. The supported black power and said that they were not a racist or...
On August 11th 1965 in Watts Los Angeles, a riot broke out in what was known as the African American ghetto. The event that caused the riots was the beating of Marquette Frye who was a young man ac...
Malcolm X was a very active member in the Nation of Islam. He was inspired by Marcus Garveys views and used that to fuel his black nationalist thoughts. He was assassinated by three members of the ...
The 24th amendment outlawed the use of poll taxes in order to limit African American voting in the south. This amendment expanded the rights of black voters.
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a racially motivated terrorist attack in September 1963 by members of a Ku Klux Klan group in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. The bombing of the...
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place during a peroid of severe racial tension. The March on Washington had several different civil rights organizations participating, around 250,...
Medgar Evers was the field secretary of the NAACP and a major leader in the Civil Rights movement. On June 12th, 1963 John F. Kennedy stated that there would be more federal support to push integra...
A best-selling book by Betty Friedan started the second wave of the women's movement. Friedan began conducting a survey among her fellow alumna from Smith College in 1957, asking questions about th...
Martin Luther King Jr. writes a letter to his collegues from a jail in Burmingham, Alabama. His reason for being in jail was because of a peace protest about Burmingham's police force. The impact o...
In 1961, a brave group of both black and white, men and women, boarded buses, trains, and planes to travel to the deep south to protest the 1960 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in all pu...
At eating places there were segregated seats. The whites had chairs and table but African Americans had to stand or sit at the counter. On February 1st 4 African Americans protested and within 4 da...
Little Rock Nine was when Governor Orval Faubus wanted to prevent nine African American students from entering the a racial segregated school. Faubus used the National Guard to protect the African ...
Rosa Parks was going home from work on a city bus. All the seats were taken when a white man got on the bus and the driver told Parks to surrender her seat. She refused and the driver called the po...
Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a fourteen year old African-American from Chicago, Illinois who was brutally murdered [1] in Money, Mississippi, a small town in the s...
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...
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