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The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education was a watershed event in the history of the United States.
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On August 28, 1955 in Money, Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped & murdered due to racial reform in the South.
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An African American woman, Rosa Parks was arrested refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Al
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The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, gained attention when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the National Guard to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school
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The early day of October 12, 1958, an explosion in a recessed entranceway at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta's oldest & most prominent synagogues, known as "The Temple".
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The representing students of Atlanta's six historically black colleges organized a series of sit-ins at area lunch counters to protest the city's legally sanctioned segregation
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On July 1962, National Association for the Advancement of colored people held it annual convention in Atlanta
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September 15, 1963, The bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Al, which killed 4 children was one of the deadliest acts of violence to take place during the rights movement & outrage from around the world.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in the presidential motorcade
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A portest local resistance to black voter registration in Dallas Country, Al, the southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery
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Martin Luther King Jr, was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the balcony of his room at the Corraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The fate of his final cause, the poor people's campaign, faced an uncertain future.
