Civil Rights Events

  • CORE

    CORE
    CORE which stands for Congress of Racial Equality,which is a African American civil right organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights movement.
  • Brown Vs. Board

    Brown Vs. Board
    Brown Vs. Board of Education was a landmark of United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white to be unconstitutional.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    She's got arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white woman.
  • SCLC

    SCLC
    SCLC, which was Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was an African-American civil rights organization. It was closly associated with its first president, named Martin Luther King Jr. .
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    were people who challenged racial laws in the american South in the 1960’s, because of refusing to abide by the laws designating the seating in buses by segregated by race.
  • Albany Movement

    Albany Movement
    Albany Movement was basically a desegregation campaign formed on November 17,1961 in Albany, Georgia. It challenged all forms of racial segregation and discrimination in the city. Martin Luther King Jr. and also SCLC joined in the movement in December 1961.
  • Project "C"

    Project "C"
    Project “C” was created by Martin Luther King Jr. which he called Birmingham, Alabama “the worst big city in the race relations in the United States”. Had a telegram to president Kennedy after the bombing of Birmingham’s Bethel Church.