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70 relations: Abbeville, Alabama, African Americans, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Legislature, Betty Jean Owens, Birmingham, Alabama, Broadway theatre, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Chauncey Sparks, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, Civil rights movement, Clopton, Alabama, Communist party, Congressional Black Caucus, Countee Cullen, Death threat, E. D. Nixon, Equal justice under law, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Firebombing, Gang rape, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Henry County, Alabama, House Un-American Activities Committee, Indictment, Jim Crow laws, John H. Sengstacke, Kidnapping, Langston Hughes, Lillian Smith (author), Mary Church Terrell, Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, NAACP, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Nazism, Negro Masonic Hall, New York Daily News, New York Film Festival, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar Hammerstein II, Pittsburgh Courier, Press club, Racial segregation, Racism in the United States, Random House, Rape in the United States, Rosa Parks, ..., Sexual assault, Sharecropping, Sociology, Southern Negro Youth Congress, Southern Regional Council, Southern United States, State of the Union, Strange Fruit (novel), The Chicago Defender, The Committee for Equal Justice, The Grio, Timeline of the civil rights movement, United States Army, Venice Film Festival, Vigilante, W. E. B. Du Bois, White House, White supremacy, Winter Haven, Florida, 75th Golden Globe Awards. Expand index (20 more) »
Abbeville, Alabama
Abbeville is a city in Henry County, Alabama, United States.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
The Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Alabama.
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Alabama Legislature
The Alabama Legislature is the legislative branch of the state government of Alabama.
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Betty Jean Owens
Betty Jean Owens is an African American woman who was brutally raped by four white men in Tallahassee, Florida in 1959.
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Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.
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Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Charlotte Hawkins Brown (June 11, 1883 – January 11, 1961) was an American author, educator, and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina.
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Chauncey Sparks
George Chauncey Sparks (October 8, 1884 – November 6, 1968), known as Chauncey Sparks, was an attorney and Democratic American politician who served as the 41st Governor of Alabama from 1943 to 1947.
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Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project
The Civil Rights Restorative Justice Project is an initiative by the Northeastern University School of Law to document every racially motivated killing in the American South between 1930 and 1970, The project aims to serve as a resource for scholars, policymakers, and organizers involved in various initiatives seeking justice for crimes of the civil rights era.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Clopton, Alabama
Clopton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Dale County, Alabama, United States.
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Communist party
A communist party is a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy.
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Congressional Black Caucus
The Congressional Black Caucus is a political organization made up of the African-American members of the United States Congress.
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Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946), born Countee LeRoy Porter, was a prominent African-American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Death threat
A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people.
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E. D. Nixon
Edgar Daniel Nixon (July 12, 1899 – February 25, 1987), known as E. D. Nixon, was an African-American civil rights leader and union organizer in Alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the landmark Montgomery Bus Boycott there in 1955.
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Equal justice under law
Equal justice under law is a phrase engraved on the front of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. It is also a societal ideal that has influenced the American legal system.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Firebombing
Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire, caused by incendiary devices, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs.
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Gang rape
Gang rape occurs when a group of people participate in the rape of a single victim.
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Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
The Cecil B. DeMille Award is an honorary Golden Globe Award bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment".
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Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
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Henry County, Alabama
Henry County is a county on the southeastern border of the U.S. state of Alabama.
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House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC, or House Committee on Un-American Activities, or HCUA) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.
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Indictment
An indictment is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime.
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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John H. Sengstacke
John Herman Henry Sengstacke (November 25, 1912 – May 28, 1997) was an African-American newspaper publisher and owner of the largest chain of black newspapers in the country.
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Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
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Lillian Smith (author)
Lillian Eugenia Smith (December 12, 1897 – September 28, 1966) was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known most prominently for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944).
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Mary Church Terrell
Mary Church Terrell (September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954) was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree, and became known as a national activist for civil rights and suffrage.
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Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.
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Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
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National Association of Colored Women's Clubs
The National Association of Colored Women Clubs (NACWC) is an American organization that was formed in July 1896 at the First Annual Convention of the National Federation of Afro-American Women in Washington, D.C., United States, by a merger of the National Federation of African-American Women, the Woman's Era Club of Boston, and the National League of Colored Women of Washington, DC, at the call of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin.
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Nazism
National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.
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Negro Masonic Hall
The Negro Masonic Hall in St. Louis, Missouri (also known as the Prince Hall Grand Lodge #2) was a historic building built in 1886.
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New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.
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New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is an annual film festival held every autumn in New York City, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC).
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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years.
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Pittsburgh Courier
The Pittsburgh Courier was an African-American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1907 until October 22, 1966.
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Press club
A press club is an organization for journalists and others professionally engaged in the production and dissemination of news.
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Racial segregation
Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
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Racism in the United States
Racism in the United States against non-whites is widespread and has been so the colonial era.
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Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.
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Rape in the United States
Rape in the United States is defined by the Department of Justice as "Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim." While definitions and terminology of rape vary by jurisdiction in the United States, the FBI revised its definition to eliminate a requirement that the crime involve an element of force.
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Sexual assault
Sexual assault is an act in which a person coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.
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Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.
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Southern Negro Youth Congress
The Southern Negro Youth Congress was established in 1937 at a conference in Richmond, Virginia.
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Southern Regional Council
The Southern Regional Council (SRC) is a reform-oriented organization created in 1944 to avoid racial violence and promote racial equality in the Southern United States.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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State of the Union
The State of the Union Address is an annual message presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, except in the first year of a new president's term.
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Strange Fruit (novel)
Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling novel debut by American author Lillian Smith that dealt with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance.
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The Chicago Defender
The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott for primarily African-American readers.
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The Committee for Equal Justice
The Committee for Equal Justice (also known as the Committee for Equal Justice for the Rights of Mrs. Recy Taylor) was an organization founded with the goal of assisting black women reclaim their bodies against sexual violence and interracial rape.
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The Grio
TheGrio is an American website with news, opinion, entertainment and video content geared toward African Americans.
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Timeline of the civil rights movement
This is a timeline of the civil rights movement, a nonviolent freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement of constitutional rights for African Americans.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the "Big Three" film festivals, alongside the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival.
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Vigilante
A vigilante is a civilian or organization acting in a law enforcement capacity (or in the pursuit of self-perceived justice) without legal authority.
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W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt "W.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.
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White supremacy
White supremacy or white supremacism is a racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races and that therefore white people should be dominant over other races.
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Winter Haven, Florida
Winter Haven is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.
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75th Golden Globe Awards
The 75th Golden Globe Awards honored film and American television of 2017 and was broadcast live on January 7, 2018, from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST by NBC.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recy_Taylor
