This document outlines important events and people in the civil rights movement in the United States including the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, James Meredith being admitted to the University of Mississippi in 1962, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and James Craig Anderson being killed in Jackson, Mississippi in 2011. It also mentions influential African American authors and activists such as Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker.