These were a group of students who rode from the North to the deep South to protest illegal interstate bus segregation.
Freedom Riders
This racist depiction of African Americans became the name for the time period between 1876-1964 when segregation was enforced.
Jim Crow Era
As illustrated by the picture, this is the Southern policy of legal separation of the races in public places
Segregation
These three students were lynched by the KKK for helping African Americans register to vote in Mississippi during this Civil Rights Movement event.
Freedom Summer
This picture illustrates President LBJ signing this important legislation officially outlawing discrimination and segregation in public places
The Civil Rights Act
This image illustrates the passage of legislation officially outlawing voting restrictions in the South.
The Voting Rights Act
Students who sat and refused to move at segregated lunch counters.
Sit-Ins
