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Plessy v. Ferguson
The U.S. Supreme Court case of 1896 protecting states ' rights to pass legislation enabling or even authorizing racial discrimination in public and private institutions such as colleges, public transit, bathrooms, and restaurants. -
The Integration of Major League Baseball
Several major league teams either debated or attempted the racial integration of professional baseball. The increasing economic and political presence of urban blacks, the success of black ballplayers in exhibition games with major leaguers, and in particular the participation of African Americans in World War II. Ex: Jackie Robinson day. -
The Integration of the Armed Forces
President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order creating the Armed Forces Equal Treatment and Employment Committee of the President, committing the Government to reform the segregated military. -
Sweatt v. Painter
Heman Marion Sweatt, a black man, applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School. State law restricted access to the university to whites, and Sweatt's application was automatically rejected because of his race. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Topeka's Board of Education was a landmark case in the Supreme Court in which the courts unanimously held that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
The Bus Boycott of Montgomery, Alabama
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights movement during which African Americans refused to ride city buses to oppose segregated seats in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa parks was arrested for refusing her seat on the bus. -
The Integration of Little Rock High School
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine Black students who enrolled in September 1957 at the previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The House of Representatives passed the original version of what in the end became the 1957 Civil Rights Act. In the summer of 1957, supported by activist organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, Congress took up the issue of civil rights -
The Freedom Rides of 1960
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights demonstrators who took part in Freedom Rides, bus rides through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. -
The Greensboro Four
A civil-rights movement that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at Woolworth's segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, refusing to leave after refused service. -
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
The United States Constitution banning the federal and state governments from raising voting fees until a person could vote in a presidential election. The U.S. had suggested it Congress on 27 August 1962 and was ratified on 23 January 1964 by the nations. -
The Integration of the University of Mississippi
Riots occurred on the campus of Mississippi University in Oxford, where residents, teachers, and dedicated segregationists assembled to protest the admission of James Meredith, a veteran of the Black Air Force who was attempting to reform the all-white academy. -
The Integration of the University of Alabama
George Wallace, one of the most notorious leaders in the history of the United States, was elected Governor of Alabama on an ultra- banner in 1962. He told his white supporters, in his inaugural speech in 1963: "Segregation now! Tomorrow, Isolation! Separation forever! "After African American graduates attempted to disassemble Alabama University in June 1963, the incoming governor of Alabama. -
The March on Washington
When about 250,000 people marched in Washington, D.C., in front of the Lincoln Monument, also known as the March for Work and Equality in Washington, the rally sought to call attention to the continued struggles and inequality faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King, the now-iconic speech "I Have a Vision" by Jr. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
The Kennedys and Connallys, riding in a Lincoln sedan, smiled at the broad and excited crowds that assembled around the parade line. Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor when their car entered the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., fatally shooting President Kennedy and critically injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ending segregation of public spaces and banning discrimination on basis of color, colour, ethnicity, age or national origin, is considered one of the crowning accomplishments of the civil rights movement. Originally proposed by President John F. Kennedy, it faced intense resistance from Congress leaders in the South and was eventually signed into law by the heir to Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson. -
The Assassination of Malcolm X
An African American nationalist and religious figure is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights by opposing Black Muslims while discussing his Organization of African American Unity. -
The March on Selma, Alabama
This was one of a series of civil-rights marches that took place in Alabama in 1965, a Southern State with a strongly rooted racial program. In March of that year, demonstrators marching the 54-mile road from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were faced with lethal attacks by city police and white militia militias in an attempt to register black voters in the South. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Signed in law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the goal was to address legal obstacles at the state and local level which barred African Americans from exercising their right to vote as provided by the 15th U.S. Amendment. Constitution. Constitution. The Voting Rights Act is one of the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights law in the history of the United States. -
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Around 6:05 p.m. The next day King was on the balcony on the second floor of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where he and his friends were standing, when a sniper's bullet shot him in the back. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at the age of 39, over an hour later. -
The Passage of Title IX
No individual in the United States shall be disqualified from participating in any educational program or operation requiring Federal financial aid on the basis of sex, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination. -
The Appointment of the First Woman Justice of the Supreme Court
President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor, an Arizona appeals court judge, as the first woman in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court of Justice. The Senate unanimously approved her nomination to the highest court of the nation on September 21, and Chief Justice Warren Burger was sworn in on September 25. -
The Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama
While the Illinois junior U.S. congressman, he secured a close primary Democratic contest over New York Congressman Hillary Clinton before triumphing over Republican nominee Arizona Senator John McCain in the general election. Against the backdrop of the catastrophic economic crisis of the country at the height of the Great Depression, his message struck an optimistic chord with a community searching change. -
The Elimination of Combat Restriction for Women
Allowing women to serve in nearly every aviation capacity. Few limitations on aviation units is retained to directly support ground forces and special operations aviation forces -
The Democratic Party Nomination of Hillary Clinton
Individuals included in this section took one or more of the following actions: publicly declared their nomination or sent to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as a nominee (for non-exploratory purposes) and participated in at least five independent national surveys.
