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The NAACP was founded in New York, NY and was created by W.E.B Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans. It was working to get rid of segregation, and discrimination of African Americans.

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CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY (CORE) - 1942. 

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CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY (CORE) - 1942. 

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CORE was founded in Chicago, Illinois it was one of of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American civil rights movement created by James Farmer, Bayard Rustin, Bernice Fisher and George Houser. CORE'S mission is "to bring about equality for all people regardless of race, creed, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or ethnic background."

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BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA, KANSAS - MAY 17, 1954. 

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BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA, KANSAS - MAY 17, 1954. 

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This was a huge decision of the U.S. Supreme Court where the they ruled state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are equal in quality. The Brown family lawyers argued that segregation by law implied that African Americans were inferior to whites and they asked the Court to strike down segregation.

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MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT - DEC 5, 1955 – DEC 20, 1956. 

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MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT - DEC 5, 1955 – DEC 20, 1956. 

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The Montgomery bus boycott was was a civil rights protest in Alabama due to segregated seating to ride city buses. Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks was arrested and fined because she would not give up her seat for a white man.

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SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (SCLC) - JANUARY 10, 1957. 

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SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (SCLC) - JANUARY 10, 1957. 

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The SCLC was founded in Atlanta, Georgia by Martin Luther King Jr. Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Bayard Rustin and Joseph Lowery. It was created in an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott.

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The Little Rock 9 were a group of nine black students who enrolled at an all white school (Central High School in Little Rock). Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education.

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The sit in movement was a civil rights protest where African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They refused to leave after being denied service, and the sit-in movement started to spread to other colleges around the south.

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STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC) - APRIL 1960. 

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STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC) - APRIL 1960. 

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The SNCC was a civil rights group founded in Raleigh, North Carolina by Ella Baker, Diane Nash, Julian Bond, Bernard Lafayette, and Charles Sharrod. The committee wanted to give young black people a bigger voice in the civil rights movement.

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FREEDOM RIDERS - MAY 4, 1961-DECEMBER 10, 1961. 

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FREEDOM RIDERS - MAY 4, 1961-DECEMBER 10, 1961. 

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The freedom riders were a number of political protests against segregation of busses in the south. Their goals were to desegregate interstate transportation, including highways, bus stops, and train terminals.

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INTERROGATION AT OLE MISS - SEPTEMBER 30, 1962.  

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INTERROGATION AT OLE MISS - SEPTEMBER 30, 1962.  

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On the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford riots erupted. Locals, students, and committed segregationists came together to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school.

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A mass march on Washington D.C was organized by by activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. They wanted to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans.

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BIRMINGHAM BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING - SEPTEMBER 15, 1963. 

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BIRMINGHAM BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING - SEPTEMBER 15, 1963. 

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A bombing in Birmingham Alabama was the third bombing in 11 days, after a federal court order had come down mandating the integration of Alabama's school system. The bomb killed four African-American girls during the service and at least 14 others were injured in the explosion.

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The United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, and it prohibited any poll tax in elections for federal officials. The poll tax exemplified “Jim Crow” laws, developed in the post-Reconstruction South, which aimed to disenfranchise black voters and institute segregation.

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The civil rights act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. This act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson and was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

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ASSASSINATION OF MALCOLM X - FEBRUARY 21, 1965

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ASSASSINATION OF MALCOLM X - FEBRUARY 21, 1965

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Malcolm X, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist best known for his controversial black racial advocacy. He was shot in the Audubon ballroom in New York City.

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MARCH FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY - MARCH 7, 1965-MARCH 21, 1965. 

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MARCH FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY - MARCH 7, 1965-MARCH 21, 1965. 

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The march took place in Selma Alabama, the protesters marched from there to the capital of Montgomery. Almost a 16 hour walk marchers fought for the right to protest and president Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, he called for federal voting rights legislation to stop the barriers that prevented African Americans to vote.

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965, was signed as a law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The act was to stop the barrier that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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The Black Panthers originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense were a revolutionary political organization whose ideology was black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense. They were founded by Bobby Seale (Chairman) and Huey Newton (Minister of Defense) in Oakland, California.

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ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - APRIL 4, 1968. 

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ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. - APRIL 4, 1968. 

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MLK Jr. was shot in Memphis, TN he was a American Christian minister and activist who was one of the greatest spokesperson/leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, an hour later, he was declared dead.