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Plessy vs. Ferguson
The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools. -
Emmett Till is murdered
Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi. -
Rosa Parks is arrested
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower. -
Woolworth's sit-in
4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store. -
Albany Movement
This movement protested the segregation policies in Albany, Ga. -
University of Georgia Integration
The federal district court ordered the immediate admission of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to the University of Georgia, ending 160 years of segregation at the school. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation. -
Ole Miss Riot of 1962
It was a riot between Southern segregationists and federal/state forces. Segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, a black US military veteran, at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi. -
Birmingham Campaign
A movement organized to end discriminatory economic policies in the city against African American residents. -
Americus Movement
It was a civil rights protest that began in Americus, Georgia and its main goals were voter registration and a citizenship education plan. -
MLK is arrested
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.” -
MLK "I Have A Dream" Speech
More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill. -
Freedom Summer
Also known as the Mississippi Summer Project it was a voter registration drive in order to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
New York School Boycott
Hundreds of thousands of parents, students and civil rights advocates took part in a citywide boycott of the New York City public school system to demonstrate their support for the full integration of the city's public schools. -
Civil Rights Act
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law. -
Selma to Montgomery
A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins. -
SCOPE Project
The Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project was able to help register more than 49,000 new African American voters by the project's official end date on August 28, 1965. -
Voting Rights Acts
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests. -
Watts Riot
It raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage, was both the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights era. -
Black Panthers are founded
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers. -
Poor People's Campaign
It was in the wake of MLK's death and the purpose was to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States -
MLK is assasinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
