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Brown v. Board Education
Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court ruled against school segregation. Overturning Plessy v. Freguson decision of "separate but equal" in 1896. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Dwight signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Making the Civil Rights section of the Justice Department. -
President Dwight
President Dwight makes troops invade Little Rock's Central High, Arkansas to enforce a integration law. -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was made during a conference organized by activist Ella Baker. It was made at Shaw University, North Carolina. -
CORE
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) did Freedom Rides throughout the South to show Supreme Court's rule of banning segregation on interstate buses is mixed up. The Riders are met with violence throughout the trip. -
President Kennedy's orders
President Kennedy filed an Executive Order 11063, not letting racial discrimination in "the sale or lease of housing facilities owned or operated by the federal government or housing built or purchased with federal aid." -
Civil rights groups
Civil rights groups tried to increase the number of black people who are able to vote in Mississippi, and face continuing harassment and violence. -
Project C
To draw national attention to the treatment of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Shuttlesworth and other civil rights activists launch a campaign for a protests, known as Project C. -
Bombing
A bomb exploded in the basement of a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four African American girls. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act. Letting non-English speaking Americans to vote. Empowering the federal government to oversee voter registration and elections, outlawing biased literacy tests.
