Civil rights protests in the United States

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".

social movement originating in the USA

2014 police killing of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri, United States

death of African American man due to chokehold from police officer

protests in Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 2015 against the killing of Freddie Gray by Baltimore Police

death of a person in police custody

series of protests by American athletes

American civil rights activist and kidnap victim (1919-2017)

1917 protest in New York City

thumb|Attendees at the #SayHerName vigil of May 20, 2015, located at Union Square, Manhattan|Union Square in New York City SayHerName is a social movement that seeks to raise awareness for Black women victims of police brutality and anti-Black violence in the United States. The movement's name was created by the African American Policy Forum (AAPF). #SayHerName aims to highlight the gender-specific ways in which Black women are disproportionately affected by fatal acts of racial injustice. In an effort to create a large social media presence alongside existing racial justice campaigns, such as

desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia

1968 student demonstrations against racism and the Vietnam War