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Plessy v. Ferguson
The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites. -
The NAACP
A diverse group of people, white, blacks and Jews founded the NAACP. The goal of the group was to fight for civil rights in the US. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools. -
Assassination of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi. -
Rosa Parks disobeyed the law
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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The SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, comprised of Martin Luther king Jr., Charles K steel and Fred L. Shuttlesworth, was established. King was the organization's first president. -
The Civil rights Act of 1957
Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another's right to vote. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock nine enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower. -
The SNCC
The student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, providing young blacks with a more prominent place in the civil rights movement -
Sit-in protest at a Woolworth's store
4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store. -
Executive order 10925
President Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925, prohibiting discrimination in federal government hiring on the basis of race religion or national origin and establishing. -
Ruby Bridges 1st to attend grade school
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960. -
Freedom riders
Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation. -
Birmingham Campaign
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.” -
Megrar Evers shot and killed
In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
March on Washington
More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill. -
The Baptist School bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law. -
Malcolm X assassination
In New York City, Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. -
March on Selma
A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins. -
Voting Rights Act
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests. -
Black Panther Party
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex.
