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People (12)
Bob Dylan
The folk singer who broke folk music, born 1941
Cesar Chavez
Labor organizer who won rights for America's farmworkers
Eugene V. Debs
Labor Leader, Socialist Presidential Candidate, and Prisoner of Conscience, 1855–1926
Fannie Lou Hamer
Sharecropper, Voting Rights Activist, and Voice of the Mississippi Freedom Movement, 1917–1977
Huey Newton
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party and Revolutionary of the Black Power Era, 1942–1989
John Brown
Militant abolitionist who brought the war over slavery to a boil
Malcolm X
The civil rights era's most uncompromising voice for Black self-determination and human dignity
Martin Luther King Jr.
Baptist minister who led the American civil rights movement
Mother Jones
The fearless organizer once called "the most dangerous woman in America"
Muhammad Ali
The champion who refused the draft and became a global symbol of conscience
Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist whose 1955 arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Samuel Adams
Founding Father, master agitator, and the man who made revolution seem inevitable
Places (2)
Alcatraz Island
The island fortress in San Francisco Bay that held the nation's most dangerous men — and became a symbol of Native resistance
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
The Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota — site of Wounded Knee
Eras (1)
Civil Rights Era
The 14 years of legislation, protest, and federal action that dismantled legal segregation, 1954–1968
Events (34)
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The 1968 killing that convulsed the nation and the movement
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
The 1968 murder that silenced a generation's hope
Boston Massacre
The 1770 Street Confrontation That Ignited a Revolution
Chicago 1968
The Democratic Convention that tore a party apart and handed the White House to Nixon
Civil Rights Movement
The decades-long struggle that dismantled legal segregation and reshaped American democracy
Election of 1968
Nixon's narrow victory amid assassination, riots, and the collapse of the New Deal coalition
Haymarket Affair
The 1886 bombing that defined — and distorted — the American labor movement
Homestead Strike
The 1892 labor battle that broke the steel union and defined Gilded Age industrial conflict
January 6 Capitol Attack
The 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol that interrupted the certification of the presidential election
Kent State Shootings
The 1970 killing of four students by National Guard troops that broke the antiwar movement open
Los Angeles Riots (1992)
Six days of urban unrest following the acquittal of officers who beat Rodney King
March on Washington
The August 1963 demonstration where 250,000 Americans demanded civil rights — and heard a dream
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The 381-day protest that launched the modern civil rights movement
Murder of George Floyd
The 2020 killing that triggered a global racial-justice reckoning
Nat Turner's Rebellion
The 1831 slave rebellion that terrified the South and hardened the institution it challenged
New York Draft Riots
The deadliest civil insurrection in American history, ignited by the inequities of the Civil War draft
Occupy Wall Street
The 2011 protest that put economic inequality on the agenda
Oklahoma City Bombing
The Deadliest Act of Domestic Terrorism in American History, April 19, 1995
Selma to Montgomery Marches
The 1965 voting rights marches that broke open the conscience of a nation
Shays' Rebellion
The 1786 Uprising That Made the Constitution Necessary
Stonewall Riots
The 1969 Greenwich Village uprising that launched the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement
The #MeToo Movement
The 2017 reckoning over sexual harassment and assault
The Bonus Army March
The WWI veterans' encampment that Hoover destroyed — and Roosevelt studied carefully
The Boston Tea Party
The 1773 harbor protest that pushed the colonies toward revolution
The Committees of Correspondence
The nervous system of colonial resistance, 1772-1775
The Freedom Rides
The 1961 campaign that put civil rights on buses and forced the federal government to act
The Gaspee Affair
Rhode Islanders burn a revenue schooner, June 1772
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The first nationwide strike — and the violent dawn of the American labor war
The Pullman Strike
The 1894 railroad shutdown that sent a labor leader to prison — and radicalized him
Vietnam War
America's longest 20th-century conflict and the war that broke the postwar consensus, 1955–1975
Watts Riots
Six Days of Uprising That Redefined the Civil Rights Movement, 1965
Whiskey Rebellion
The 1794 tax revolt that tested federal authority under the new Constitution
Woodstock
The 1969 festival that became the emblem of the counterculture
Wounded Knee 1973
The 71-Day AIM Occupation That Revived Native American Resistance
Documents (7)
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963
Stamp Act
The 1765 British tax that turned colonial discontent into revolutionary purpose
Tea Act
The 1773 law that provoked the Boston Tea Party and made revolution inevitable
The Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts meant to isolate Massachusetts, 1774
The Suffolk Resolves
Massachusetts declares the Coercive Acts void, September 1774
The Sugar Act
The 1764 duty Britain actually meant to collect
The Townshend Acts
Duties, general search warrants, and salaried governors, 1767
Concepts (9)
Black Lives Matter
The movement against racism and police violence born of a hashtag
Black Power
A movement demanding Black self-determination, pride, and political independence
Civil Disobedience
The deliberate, nonviolent refusal to obey unjust laws as a form of moral protest
Populism
The agrarian movement that challenged corporate power and reshaped American democracy
The American Indian Movement
The activism that revived Native rights and demanded the treaties be honored
The Counterculture of the 1960s
The cultural rebellion that challenged postwar conformity and permanently altered American life
The Environmental Movement
From Theodore Roosevelt's conservation to Rachel Carson's alarm to the unresolved politics of climate
The Labor Movement
The century-long fight by American workers for fair wages, safe conditions, and human dignity
Women's Liberation Movement
The feminist uprising of the 1960s and '70s that transformed American law and culture
Organizations (1)
The Anti-Imperialist League
The campaign against an American colonial empire, 1898-1921
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