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Brown vs. Board of Education pf Topeka
Brown went to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for help, and they were eager to help the Browns, and they were waiting to challenge segregation in public schools. They did this because they felt that it wasn't fair for black children to have to walk further to get to a black school when a white school was very close. The Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision did not abolish segregation in other areas, it just ended segregation on schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycotts (Story of Rosa Parks)
Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white man, because there were no seats in the back for her to sit. This was just one of the events that started the Mongomery Bus boycotts. The boycotts weren't the only thing that Park's was involved in, she also helped in the defferent movements that Martin Luther King Jr. ran too. -
Greensboro NC Lunch Counter Sit-ins
In protest of local resturants that refuse to serve African-American custumers, a series sit-ins staged at lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina -
Bailey vs. Patterson (De-Segregation in Transpertation)
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bailey vs. Patterson declares that segregation in transpotation facilties is unconstitutional. -
Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream"
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers the historic "I Have a Dream" speak in front of hundreds of thousands of participants in the "March on Washington". -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civile Rights Act of 1964 passes Congress, prohibiting discrimination in a number of settings: Title 1 prohibits descrimination in voting, Title 2: prohibits public accommodations, Title 3: Public facilities, Title 4: Public Education, Title 5: Federally-Assisted programs' Title 6: Employment. THe Act also establishes the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). -
Voting Acts of 1965
Signed into law in 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohbits the denial and restriction of the right to vote, and forbids deiscrimnatorty voting prcatices nationwide. -
Loving vs. Virginia
THe U.S. Supreme Court decison in Loving vs. Virginia declares that laws prohibiting interracial marriage are unconstitutional. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis
At 6:01 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. had been standing on the balcony of his room when a bullet came at him and killed him.
