Freedom Day: A massive voter registration drive in 1963

Bloody Sunday: March 7, 1965, the day of a violent confrontation during the Selma to Montgomery marches.

Detroit Walk to Freedom: A 1963 march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in Detroit.

Bobby Seale: Co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

Medgar Evers Home: A historic site in Jackson, Mississippi, commemorating the life of the civil rights leader.

Dorothy Height: Leader in the Civil Rights Movement, president of the National Council of Negro Women.

Freedom Schools: Alternative free schools for African Americans, mostly in the South.

1964 Civil Rights Act Title VI: Prohibited discrimination in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.

Ruby Bridges: First African American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in the South.

Poor People's Campaign: Launched by Martin Luther King Jr. to address economic justice.

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: Museum in Birmingham, Alabama, dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement.

Sit-Ins at Nashville: Organized by students to challenge segregation in the city's stores and facilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC): Established by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to enforce federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination.

A. Philip Randolph: Leader in the Civil Rights Movement and the American labor movement.

Highlander Folk School: An educational center for workers' rights and racial equality.

Tuskegee Airmen: First African American military aviators in the U.S. armed forces, who fought in World War II.

Woolworth's Sit-In: The 1960 sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Nation of Islam: An African American political and religious movement that played a role in the Civil Rights era.

Howard University: A historically black university that was a hub for civil rights activism.

Fair Employment Practices Committee: Created during WWII to prohibit racial discrimination in the defense industry.

1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike: Highlighted by Martin Luther King Jr.'s involvement and his assassination during this period.

Medgar Evers: NAACP field secretary who was assassinated in 19

Stokely Carmichael: Leader in SNCC and later the Black Panther Party, credited with popularizing the term "Black Power."

Black Power Movement: Emphasized racial pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and cultural institutions.