Civil Rights Movement
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Leaders and Activists
- Melvin Ovenus Alston
- Marion Anderson
- Ella Josephine Baker
- Josephine Baker
- James Baldwin
- Charlotta Spears Bass
- Mary McCleod Bethune
- Carl James Braden
- Stokely Carmichael
- Septima Poinsette Clark
- Frederick Douglass
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Ralph Ellison
- Medgar Evers
- James Farmer
- Crystal Bird Fauset
- Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher
- Marcus Garvey
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Charles Hamilton Houston
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Malcolm X
- Thurgood Marshall
- Benjamin Elijah Mays
- Huey P. Newton
- Rosa Parks
- Asa Philip Randolph
- Paul Robeson
- Jackie Robinson
- Mary Eliza Church Terrell
- Louise Thompson Patterson
- William Monroe Trotter
- Booker T. Washington
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Richard Wright
Organizations
- American Indian Movement (AIM)
- Black Panthers
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Ku Klux Klan
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- National Urban League
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
- Student Non-Violent Coordinationg Committee (SNCC)
Politicians
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- John F. Kennedy
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Abraham Lincoln
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
- George Wallace
Racism, Crime, and Violence
Segregation and the Law
- Affirmative Action
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Harlem Renaissance
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Segregation, Racial
