Civil Rights Articles
Affirmative Action Policies of the 1960s and 1970s
Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Mountaintop” Speech
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Executive Order 9981: The Desegregation of the Armed Forces
Freedom Summer
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections
James Meredith Integrates the University of Mississippi
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Loving v. Virginia
Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
Medgar Evers Assassinated (1963)
Operation Breadbasket
Plessy v. Ferguson
President Roosevelt’s Fair Employment Practices Committee
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Selma to Montgomery Marches
Shirley Chisholm Elected to Congress (1968)
Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power” Speech (1966)
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Assassination of Malcolm X
The Birmingham Campaign
The Black Lives Matter Movement
The Black Power Movement (1960s-1970s)
The Boston Busing Crisis (1974-1988)
The Charlottesville Rally (2017): A Comprehensive Analysis
The Chicago Freedom Movement (1965-1967)
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Civil Rights Act of 1991
The Civil Rights Cases of 1883
The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987
The Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1965)
The Fair Housing Act of 1968
The Formation of the Black Panther Party
The Formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
The Formation of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
The Formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
The Formation of the NAACP: A Milestone in the Fight for Civil Rights
The Formation of the National Black Women’s Health Project (1983)
The Formation of the Rodney King Verdict and LA Riots (1992)
The Formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Formation of the Southern Poverty Law Center (1971)
The Formation of the United Farm Workers
The Formation of the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006
The Founding of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Founding of the National Urban League
The Freddie Gray Protests of 2015: A Detailed Examination
The Freedom Rides
The George Floyd Protests of 2020
The Greensboro Sit-Ins
The Harlem Riot of 1964
The History of Jim Crow and Subsequent Laws
The Kerner Commission Report
The Little Rock Nine
The March Against Fear
The March on Washington (1963)
The Million Man March (1995)
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
The Murder of Emmett Till
The Orangeburg Massacre (1968)
The Poor People’s Campaign
The Rainbow Coalition (1969)
The Ratification of the 13th Amendment
The Ratification of the 14th Amendment
The Ratification of the 15th Amendment
The Rosa Parks Act (2006)
The Scottsboro Boys Trial
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1960)
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The War on Poverty
The Watts Rebellion (The Watts Riots)
The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898
Thurgood Marshall Appointed to the Supreme Court
Title IX
The Formation of the Trayvon Martin Case (2012)
Tuskegee Syphilis Study Exposed (1972)