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Brown v. Board Of Education of Topeka
was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Emmitt Till Lynching
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store -
Bus Boycott Montgomery
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Greensboro Sit-in movement
students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. -
Ruby Bridges
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 -
The Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, -
James Mereditch enrolls at university of Mississippi
Battle of Oxford, was fought between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 30, 1962 -
University of Alabama Desegregation
The promise to stop segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi and the state's field secretary of the NAACP -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellow friends was pressuring JFK administration on he civil rights bill in Congress. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, -
Freedom Summer Project
A project by ( CORE) and the student non violent coordination for blacks to vote. -
24 Admendment
The right for citizens of the united states to vote in any primary or other election. -
Civil Rights Act 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
MLK wins the nobel peace prize
for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. -
March on Selma
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 -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson aimed to overcome segregation and create levels for African American to Vote -
Watts Riots(Watts Rebellion)
An African American Motorist was pulled over for reckless driving. -
Thurgood Marshall Named supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice -
Martin Luther King assassination
Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968
