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Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision regarding the case called Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in which the plaintiffs charged that the education of black children in separate public schools from their white counterparts was unconstitutional. The opinion of the Court stated that the "segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law. -
Emmit Till Murder
Emitt Till a 14 year old African American boy from Chicago, Illinois is brutally murdered by two white men. -
Rosa Park's sit in.
Rosa parks an African woman refused to give up her seat to a white man. She was arrested and charged with violating the Jim Crow laws shorty after. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Whites are angry about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Four African Amersican houses and churches were bombed including MLK's home. -
Cooper vs. Aaron
Supreme Court decision Cooper vs. Aaron rules that a threat of mob violence is not enough to delay school segragation. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Rides were journeys by Civil Rights activists on interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, (1960) 364 U.S. that ended segregation for passengers engaged in interstate travel. Organized by CORE, the first Freedom Ride of the 1960s left Washington D.C. on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17. They never did finishe their rout because the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) bombed the bus. -
March on Washington, 1963
A. Philip Randolph had planned a march on Washington, D.C. in 1941 to support demands for elimination of employment discrimination in defense industries; he called off the march when the Roosevelt administration met the demand by issuing Executive Order 8802 barring racial discrimination and creating an agency to oversee compliance with the order. -
I have a dream
MLK presents his "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights act of 1964
Civil Rights Movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964,[1] that banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or -
MLK assassination
Martin Luher King Jr. is assassinated on a hoel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee.
