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Civil Rights, Law, and Society

Abbott, Diane
Abernathy, Ralph David
affirmative action
Afrocentrism
AIDS
Alabama Platform
American Civil War
American Colonization Society
American Equal Rights Association
Amos, Valerie Ann
apartheid
Aristide, Jean-Bertrande
Armstrong, Samuel Chapman
Atlanta Compromise
Attucks, Crispus
Baker, Ella
Bakke decision
Barry, Marion
Bass, Charlotta Spears
Bates, Daisy Gatson
Bethune, Mary McLeod
black code
black nationalism
Black Panther Party
Boas, Franz
Boateng, Paul
Bond, Julian
Bradley, Tom
Brooke, Edward
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Brown, Ron
Brown, Willie
Brownsville Affair
Bruce, Blanche K.
buffalo soldier
Bunche, Ralph
busing (Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education)
Carmichael, Stokely
carpetbagger
Chenault, Kenneth
Chicago Defender
Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Chisholm, Shirley
Civil Rights Act
civil rights movement
Clark, Septima Poinsette
Cleaver, Eldridge
Coleman, Bessie
Cosby, Bill
Crittenden Compromise
Davis, Angela
Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Jr.
Davis, Benjamin Oliver, Sr.
Davis, Ossie; and Dee, Ruby
Dinkins, David
Douglass, Frederick
Dred Scott decision
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Du Sable, Jean-Baptist-Point
Duvalier, François
Duvalier, Jean-Claude
East Saint Louis Race Riot of 1917
Ebonics
Edelman, Marian Wright
Emancipation Proclamation
equal protection
Evers, Medgar
Evers-Williams, Myrlie
Farmer, James Leonard
Force Acts
Fort Pillow Massacre
Freedmen's Bureau
Freedom Rides
gag rule
Garvey, Marcus
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Golden Thirteen
grandfather clause
Grant, Bernie
Great Migration
Gregory, Dick
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Harlan, John Marshall
Harlem
Harlem Renaissance
Harris, Barbara
Harris, Patricia Roberts
hate crime
Height, Dorothy
Henson, Matthew Alexander
Holman, M. Carl
Hooks, Benjamin L.
Hope, Lugenia Burns
Houston, Charles Hamilton
Jackson, Jesse
Jackson, Maynard
Jim Crow Law
Johnson, Robert
Jordan, Barbara C.
Jordan, Vernon
Keyes, Alan
King, Coretta Scott
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Ku Klux Klan
Kwanzaa
Langston, John Mercer
Lewis, Sir Arthur
Liberator, The
Lynch, John R.
lynching
Malcolm X
Manley, Michael
Marshall, Thurgood
Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
Mason, Charlotte
Memphis Race Riot
Menard, John Willis
Meredith, James
Miller, Samuel Freeman
Moody, Anne
Moseley Braun, Carol
Motley, Constance Baker
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of Colored Women
National Council of Negro Women
National Urban League
New Orleans Race Riot
Newton, Huey P.
Niagara Movement
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
Obama, Barack
Ovington, Mary White
Parks, Rosa
Parsons, Richard
personal-liberty laws
Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart
Plessy v. Ferguson
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
Powell, Colin
Raby, Al
race
Congress of Racial Equality
segregation, racial
racism
Radical Republican
Rainey, Joseph Hayne
Randolph, A. Philip
Ransier, Alonzo J.
Rapier, James T.
Rastafari
Ray, Charlotte E.
Reconstruction
restrictive covenant
Revels, Hiram R.
Rice, Condoleezza
Robinson, Rubye
Rosenwald, Julius
Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre
Rustin, Bayard
scalawag
Scottsboro case
Seale, Bobby
Shabazz, Betty
Sharpton, Al
sit-in
Smalls, Robert
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Spaulding, Charles Clinton
Springfield Race Riot
Stokes, Carl
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Talented Tenth
Terrell, Mary Eliza Church
Thomas, Clarence
Truth, Sojourner
Tubman, Harriet
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee syphilis study
Union League
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Voting Rights Act
Walker, A'Lelia
Walker, Maggie Lena Draper
Walker, Sarah Breedlove
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, Harold
Watts
Weaver, Robert C.
Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell
West, Cornel
White, Walter
Wilder, Douglas
Wilkins, Roy
Williams, Fannie Barrier
Williams, George Washington
Young, Andrew
Young, Coleman
Young, Whitney M., Jr.