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Sweatt v. Painter
The Supreme Court ruled that "in states where public graduate and professional schools existed for white students but not for black students, black students must be admitted to the all-white institutions, and that the equal protection clause required Sweatt's admission to the University of Texas School of Law." -
The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till went to The Bryant store in Mississippi with his cousins, and theres a chance he may have whistled at Carolyn Bryant. Her husband, Roy Bryant, and Roy's brother, J.W. Milam, kidnapped and brutally murdered Till, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Started by the arrest of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association
The Montgomery Improvement Association was a movement to fight for civil rights for African Americans and specifically for the desegregation of the buses in Alabama's capitol city, Tuscaloosa. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
Greensboro Sit-In
The Greensboro sit-in was a protest. Young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns. -
Mississippi Freedom Summer
The Mississippi Freedom Summer Project was various meetings, protests, freedom schools, freedom housing, freedom libraries, and a collective rise in awareness of voting rights and segregation experienced by African Americans in Mississippi. -
what led to Heart of Atlanta Motel vs. US
A large motel in Atlanta refused to offer any of its rooms to African-Americans. In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Clark, the Court held the government could enjoin the motel from discriminating on the basis of race under the Commerce Clause. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
An act that was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning -
Shirley Chisolm’s Presidential Campaign
Shirley became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination. -
Hank Aaron’s Home Run Record
For more than three decades, Hank Aaron has been known for hitting more home runs than any other baseball player in history. However, he also spoke out against pervasive racism in major league baseball and broke racial barriers throughout his career. -
Barbara Jordan’s Address at the Democratic National Convention
Barbara Jordan, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, became the first African American woman to deliver the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention. -
University of California Regents vs. Bakke
Supreme Court case which held that a university's admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964