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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. -
Brown V Board of Education
The U.S Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine in public schools. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower -
Temple Bombing
Fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entranceway at the a Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta’s oldest and most prominent synagogue, more commonly known as “the Temple” -
Augusta Movement
Students from Augusta’s historically black Paine College initiated the direct action phase of the city’s civil rights movement when they organized sit-ins at department stores -
Lunch Sit-in
4 Black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's store -
Nashville, Tennessee sit-ins
The Nashville sit-in movement is widely regarded as one of the most successful and sustained student-directed sit-in campaigns of the Civil Rights movement. -
Albany Movement
This movement protested the segregation policies in Albany, Ga. Many groups took part in the Albany movement, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), local activists and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -
University of Georgia integration
Federal District Court Judge W. A. Bootle ordered the immediate admission of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to the University of Georgia, ending 160 years of segregation at the school -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders begin a bus ride through the south to protest segregation -
MLK Arrested
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the 'most segregated city in America' -
March on Washington
More than 250,000 people march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill -
Birmingham Bombing (Sixteenth Street Baptist Church)
The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was one of the deadliest acts of violence to take place during the Civil Rights movement and evoked criticism and outrage from around the world. -
Civil Rights into Law
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law. -
New York Race Riots
The New York Race Riots of 1964 were the first in a series of devastating race-related riots that ripped through American cities between 1964 and 1965. -
March from Selma
A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins -
Bloody Sunday
This march went down in history as Bloody Sunday for the violent beatings state troopers inflicted on protesters as they attempted to march peacefully from Selma, Ala., to the state capital, Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the voting rights act into law outlawing literacy tests. -
Chicago Freedom Movement
The Chicago Open Housing Movement, also called the Chicago Freedom Movement, was formed to protest segregated housing, educational deficiencies, and employment and health disparities based on racism. The movement included multiple rallies, marches and boycotts to address the variety of issues facing black Chicago residents -
Black Panthers
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the "Black Power" political group known as the black panthers -
Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
Longstanding tensions between disgruntled African American sanitation workers and Memphis city officials erupted on February 12, 1968 when nearly one thousand workers refused to report to work demanding higher wages, safer working conditions, and recognition of their union, local 1733 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. -
MLK Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis
