This Act was passed by Congress in 1964 and was considered the most important piece of civil rights legislation since the Civil War Rights of 1875. The bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.   

She led over 300 slaves to freedom and was the conductor of the Underground Railroad.

She was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D in the United States and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She served on President Harry S. Truman’s Committee on Human Rights in 1947.

In 1955, she sparked the Montgomery bus boycott when she decided not to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus.

She founded the National Council of Negro Women.

He was a lawyer who won the Supreme Court case, Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which made segregation of public schools illegal. He later became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in American History.

In 1980, this day, known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day became a legal state holiday in the state of Texas and was recognized as the emancipation for the last remaining slaves in the United States.

This 19th century abolitionist fought to end segregation on the streetcars of Philadelphia. 

He is the U.S. representative from Georgia. He is the only living “Big Six” leader of the Civil Rights movement. He was been active in the Civil Rights movement for more than 50 years.

This Act abolished slavery throughout the United States in 1865.

On Feb. 1, 1960, these freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University held the first sit-ins at Woolworths in Greensboro. N.C. to protest the store’s segregation policies.

Also known as Sojourner Truth, she was a New York slave who became a gifted speaker on abolitionism. and women’s rights.

In 1963, he delivered his “I Have a Dream” Speech at the march on Washington.

She organized the Little Rock Nine and engineered the desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High School.

He became the first Black student to successfully enroll at the University of Mississippi. Mississippians rioted in response causing President Kennedy to send 5,000 troops to restore the peace.

This was added to the Constitution to grant suffrage rights to African-American men. Suffrage means the right to vote.

He founded the Nation of Islam in 1930.

In 1965, he led a 5 day march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to protest unfair voting.

In 1989, he was elected the first African-American mayor of New York.

He helped desegregate schools, military, and the state capital while he served as a Harlem Congressman and Civil Rights Activist.

They were the first African-American students to attend the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963 when President Kennedy ordered the national Guard to ensure their enrollment.