The
Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King, Jr.
-"I have a Dream" Speech
(1963)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
-NAACP (1909)
Mahatma Gandhi
A. Phillip Randolph
-Executive Order #8802 (1941)
Social Gospel Movement
Henry David Thoreau
-"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1845)
Brown v. Board of Education
of Topeka (1954)
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)
-Southern Christian Leadership
Conference
(1957)
Nation of Islam
(1931)
-Black Muslims
-Malcolm X
Birmingham, Alabama (1963)
-Eugene "Bull" Connor
"I have a Dream" Speech
(August, 1963)
-Washington, DC
Civil Rights Act of 1964
-Public Accommodations
-Employment
Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964)
-Poll Tax
Voting Rights Act of 1965