The NAACP won many legal battles regarding housing and education, the most famous was Brown v. Board of Education.

Brown v. Board of Education ruled that segregation in public schools was against the 14th amendment, and therefore unconstitutional.

Lasting 381 days, the Montgomery Bus Boycott resulted in the supreme court ruling that states that segregated seating on city buses is unconstitutional

Federal military was sent to escort them through the crowds of angry white people preventing them from entering the school, and this paved the way for young black people looking for an education.

They set the way for nonviolent tactics that would be used all throughout the civil rights struggle; for example, sit ins, marches, boycotts, protests, and other such forms of nonviolent action.

Some important accomplishments/ roles of the SCLC include the desegregation of entire cities (Albany, Georgia, Birmingham, etc.), and it's key roles in the March on Washington, and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign.

Some major sucesses of the SNCC were sit ins, the freedom rides, the march on Washington, and voter education projects like the Mississippi Freedom Summer.

The sit ins were a form of peaceful protest where black people would sit in restaurants that were primarily white without ordering anything, they were frequently harrassed; the sit ins instilled a feeling of pride and power in African Americans.

The Freedom Rides got the attention of the Kennedy Administration and the Interstate Commerce Commision (ICC) issued regulations banning segregation in interstate travel.

James Meredith attended his first class in American Colonial History, and his enrollment marked the first integration of a public educational facility in Mississippi.

It messed up the Kings reputation, ousted the American politician Eugene Conner, and forced desegregation in Birmingham, this also paved the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The March successfully pressured JFK to initiate a strong federal Civil Rights Bill in Congress, this led to the Civil Rights Act of 1954 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law which prohibited racial discrimination in voting, to this day it is called the most effective piece of civil rights legislation ever passed by Congress.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits racial discrimination in voting, ensuring that African Americans have the right to vote in the United States.

The 24th Amendment forbids federal and state governments from imposing taxes on voters during federal elections, it was also known as the stop to poll taxes.

Malcolm X organized temples, founded a newspaper, and led temple No. 7 in New York City's Harlem, and Malcolm X eventually was appointed to be the national representative of Islam by Elijah Muhammed.

The Black Panther party launched more than 35 survival programs, provided community help, education, tuberculosis testing, legal aid, transportation assistance, ambulance service, and the manufacture of and dispersion of free shoes to poor people.

The death of MLK Jr. sparked a surge in the black movement of the U.S. that also created more a distrust in white organizations and the political system; members in the Black Panther Party and other local black organizations surged and grew into international networks.