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Thurgood Marshall was a civil rights lawyer who used the courts to fight Jim Crow and dismantle segregation in the U.S. Marshall was a towering figure who became the nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice.

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Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

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The first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University, Du Bois published widely before becoming NAACP's director of publicity and research and starting the organization's official journal, The Crisis, in 1910.

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In 1921 she wrote to a leading suffragist to request that a Black woman be invited to the National Women's Party's celebration of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

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King led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the United States through the means of peaceful protest.

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The first general counsel of NAACP, Charles Hamilton Houston exposed the hollowness of the "separate but equal" doctrine and paved the way for the Supreme Court ruling outlawing school segregation.

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A prominent civil rights activist who became the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center

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The Chicago Freedom Movement, also referred to as the Chicago Campaign, was initiated to protest de facto segregation. The movement focused on ensuring that African Americans would have equal housing opportunities.

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March On Washington For Jobs and Freedom

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March On Washington For Jobs and Freedom

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The goals of the march were straightforward and tackled some core civil rights issues that were previously ignored in other protests.

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The Freedom Rides was a nonviolent civil rights protest organized to challenge the segregation of interstate travel facilities and buses.

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These marches were organized to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote by the systematic racist structure of the Jim Crow South.

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The Nashville Sit-Ins were among the earliest non-violent direct action campaigns that targeted Southern racial segregation in the 1960s

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.

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Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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The process of countering racial segregation by assimilating people of different races into a unified society.