Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott ­ December 1955

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Nation of Islam

Malcolm X

Sit-ins at Woolworthís lunch counters, Greensboro, NC, January 1960

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Freedom Rides, 1961

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy

Voter Education Project, 1961-1963

Federal Bureau of Investigation; FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

Birmingham civil rights protests, 1963

March on Washington, August 1963; Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream" speech

Civil Rights Act, 1964

Voting Rights Act, 1965

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964

Stokeley Carmichael

"Black Power"

Assassination of Malcolm X, 1965