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Brown vs Board of Education
Integrated Blacks into schools with whites. In the case, the NAACP represented the plaintiffs, and NAACP lawyers, such as Spottswood Robinson, argued that the black students' rights had been violated under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine were a group of black students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. At the time the school was racially segregated. After the desegregation law was passed, Little Rock decided to comply with the court's ruling. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat
Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African-American woman, refused to give up her seat when asked to leave the bus so a white could sit where she was sitting instead. She was a member of the NAACP, and protested by refusing to give up her seat. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Boycott was sparked with the arrest of Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955. It was a protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. African-Americans would boycott buses by sitting anywhere they wanted on the bus. -
Founding of the SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. Dr. King invited about 60 black ministers and leaders to Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, where they created the SCLC. -
Sit-in's
Sit-in's were a form of non-violent protest that involes people occupying an area. The earliest of the Sit-in's was the Durham, North Carolina sit-in that took place in an Ice Cream Parlor. -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was a voting rights bill, it was an act signed off by eisenhower to grant voting privelages to blacks. -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
The Civil Rights Act banned the use of different voter registration standards for blacks and whites, banned discrimination in public places such and banned discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, or national origin by employers and unions. It also created the EEOC. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Rides were an organized form of protest in which people would ride through the South starting from the North to challenge the laws of bus segregation. The first freedom ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961, and was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17. -
March on Washington
Commonly known for Martin Luther King's "I Had a Dream" speech. It was a political rally for human rights, and one of the U.S's biggest political rallies. It took place in Washington DC, standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
It outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and also women. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, the workplace and by public places. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcom X was assassinated February 21, 1965, in New York City. When prepairing to give his speech, an audience member created a ruccus and when going to quiet the audience he was shot 21 times. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed unfair voting restrictions. Also, guaranteed that throughout the nation, no person shall be denied the right to vote on account of race or color. -
Assassination of MLK jr.
Martin Luther King, an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement, was assassinated April 4, 1968. while standing on theLorraine Motel in Memphis' second floor balcony, King was shot.
