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Brown vs. Board of Education
a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court where the Court ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, even if the schools are equal in quality -
Emmett Till Murder
when visiting family in Money, Mississippi, a 14 year old boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman -
Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
a woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting at the front of a bus and not giving it up for a white person, it was a political and a social protest campaign against racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
Little Rock Nine
when 9 African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School (a white school) where they were harassed and one of the black students were killed, students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by the Governor of Arkansas -
Greensboro Woolworth's Sit-ins
nonviolent protests against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina,Young African American students staged a sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service, -
Freedom Rides
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia 1946 (racial segregation on commercial interstate buses as a violation of the commerce clause) -
Birmingham Baptist Church Bombing
A bomb at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed 4 African-American girls during church, 14 others were injured -
Civil Rights Act
a landmark civil rights law in the United States that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin -
March on Washington
a protest march that occurred when 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.and aimed to draw attention to challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans -
Voting Rights Act
a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
“Bloody Sunday”/Selma to Montgomery March
British troops shot and killed unarmed civil rights protesters, marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line -
Loving v. Virginia
a case where the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the 14th Amendment