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a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, -
a group of nine black students who enrolled Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas(Formerly an all white school).Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. On the first day of classes, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students’ entry into the high school. -
A civil rights protest that started when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. -
A series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South.
May 4th 1961- December 10th 1961. -
Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in Birmingham in response to the criticism from a religious leader. -
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
A white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. Caused by the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson. -
Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
A landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -
14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days prier. -
Rosa Parks give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.