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| was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman, caused northerners to realize how terrible south segregation was |
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| form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. |
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| rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia |
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| irst African American student at the University of Mississippi, an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. Motivated by the broadcast of President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (which did not mention civil rights per se)[1] Meredith decided to apply his democratic rights and then made the ultimate decision to apply to the University of Mississippi |
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| civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister inBirmingham, Alabama. He was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was instrumental in the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, and continued to work against racism and for alleviation of the problems of the homeless in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took up a pastorate in 1961, worked with SCLC |
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| nicknamed "Bombingham" because it was the site of eighteen unsolved bombings in black neighborhoods over a six-year span and of the vicious mob attack on the Freedom Riders on Mother's Day 1961, a series of protests took place, MLK went to jail |
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| through his overt actions to enforce racial segregation and deny Civil Rights to African American citizens, especially during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference'sBirmingham Campaign of 1963, Connor became an international symbol of bigotry. Connor famously directed the use of fire hoses, and police attack dogs against peaceful demonstrators, including children |
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| Letter from Birmingham Jail |
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| MLK's response to Clergymen accusing him of disrupting the peace |
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| "Segregation Now! Segregation tomorow! Segregation forever!" |
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| an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi who was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery after being assassinated by White Citizens' Council member [2] Byron De La Beckwith |
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| March on Washington, 1963 |
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| a large political rally in support of civil and economic rights for African Americans that took place in Washington, D.C, MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech |
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| was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public ("public accommodations") |
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| a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters |
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| ne of three American civil rights workers who were murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Klu Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi |
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| Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
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| an American political party created in the state of Mississippi in 1964, during the civil rights movement. It was organized by black and white Mississippians, with assistance from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), to challenge the legitimacy of the white-only US Democratic Party |
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was an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader.
She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity
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| reinforces the 15th amendment, all AAs can vote |
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| prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax, to help AAs be able to vote |
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