Portal:Civil rights movement

The 1963 March on Washington participants and leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial (Full article...) See also: Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Civil rights movement (1896–1954) Template:/box-header File:Little Rock Desegregation 1957.jpg Elizabeth Eckford attempts to enter Little Rock Central High on September 4, 1957; Hazel Bryan shouts behind her The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, on May 17, 1954. Tied to the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the decision declared all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional, and it called for the desegregation of all schools throughout the nation. After the decision, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) attempted to register black students in previously all-white schools in cities throughout the South. In Little Rock, Arkansas, the school board agreed to comply with the high court's ruling. Virgil Blossom, the Superintendent of Schools, submitted a plan of gradual integration to the school board on May 24, 1955, which the board unanimously approved. The plan would be implemented during the fall of the 1957 school year, which would begin in September 1957. By 1957, the NAACP had registered nine black students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High, selected on the criteria of excellent grades and attendance. Called the "Little Rock Nine", they were Ernest Green (b. 1941), Elizabeth Eckford (b. 1941), Jefferson Thomas (1942–2010), Terrence Roberts (b. 1941), Carlotta Walls LaNier (b. 1942), Minnijean Brown (b. 1941), Gloria Ray Karlmark (b. 1942), Thelma Mothershed (b. 1940), and Melba Pattillo Beals (b. 1941). Ernest Green was the first African American to graduate from Central High School. (Full article...) List of selected articles Freedom Riders Jim Crow laws Selma to Montgomery marches Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Civil Rights Act of 1964 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Sit-in movement Voting Rights Act of 1965 Brown v. Board of Education Birmingham campaign Women's poll tax repeal movement The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Dream (sculpture) Strom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 Atlanta's Berlin Wall Nashville sit-ins Woman's club movement in the United States Joseph S. Clark's and Robert F. Kennedy's tour of the Mississippi Delta Mississippi Burning Stanley Plan Amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Greensboro sit-ins Plessy v. Ferguson Report to the American People on Civil Rights Citizens' Councils Selma (film) Freedom Farm Cooperative 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests Florida Legislative Investigation Committee Southern Poverty Law Center 16th Street Baptist Church Niagara Movement Passage of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial NAACP A Change Is Gonna Come 1968 Olympics Black Power salute The following are images from various civil rights movement-related articles on Wikipedia. Template:/box-header Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist in Detroit, Michigan. She was known for going to Alabama in March 1965 to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights. On March 25, 1965, she was shot dead by three Ku Klux Klan members while driving activists between the cities and transportation. Also in the pursuit car was an undercover informant working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). His role in this and other events was not revealed until 1978. To deflect attention from the FBI, its head J. Edgar Hoover made defamatory claims about Liuzzo. (Full article...) List of selected biographies Martin Luther King Jr. Fannie Lou Hamer Rosa Parks Unita Blackwell Fred Hampton Ralph Abernathy Malcolm X W. E. B. Du Bois Emmett Till Coretta Scott King John Lewis Frederick Douglass Septima Poinsette Clark Charlotte L. Brown Jesse Jackson Whitney Young Harry Belafonte Odetta Bayard Rustin Walter Francis White James Bradley (former slave) Elizabeth Eckford Samuel Wilbert Tucker John Warren Davis (college president) Mary McLeod Bethune Tom Kahn Joseph Gelders Maya Angelou Sam Cooke The following Wikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject: Commons Free media repository Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals Wikidata Free knowledge base Wikinews Free-content news Wikiquote Collection of quotations Wikisource Free-content library Wikiversity Free learning tools Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus Discover Wikipedia using portals List of all portals The arts portal Biography portal Current events portal Geography portal History portal Mathematics portal Science portal Society portal Technology portal Random portal WikiProject Portals