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Sweat Vs. Painter
Ruled that an inferior law school created by the University of Texas to serve African Americans violated their right to equal protection and ordered Herman Sweat to be admitted to University of Texas Law School. -
Brown Vs. Board Of Education
Desegregate schools public schools so colored children can attend a closer school. They also ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa parks was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white women on the bus. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. the US supreme court later ruled the segregation system unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till murder
On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi, galvanizing support for racial reform in the South. -
Little Rock Nine crisis
A group of nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. -
Sit-ins Alt. Georgia
In March 1960, students representing Atlanta's six historically black colleges organized a series of sit-ins at area lunch counters to protest the city's legally sanctioned segregation. -
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million Americans from across the United States converged on the nation's capitol in what was to become a defining moment in the Civil Rights movement. -
Civil Rights Act
Prohibited discrimination in employment and most places of public accommodation on basis of face, color, religion, sex, or national origin, outlawed bias in federally assisted programs, created Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -
Voting Rights Act
Authorized federal supervision of voter registration in states and counties where fewer than half of voting age residents were registered, outlawed literacy test. -
Dr. Kings Assasinations
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
