outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech...

a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law and the voting rights act of 1965. he had a war on poverty in his agenda. in an attempt to win, he set a...

Protest to register African American voters in the South, violence against protesters

U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peacef...

In September 1957 the school board in Little rock, Arkansas, won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High a school with 2...

The images of civil rights abuses (such as Selma) changed the public's opinion of the Civil Rights movement.

A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences.

unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Brown claimed t...

United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil...

Chief Justice during the 1950's and 1960's who used a loose interpretation to expand rights for both African-Americans and those accused of crimes.

In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 month...