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Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision
The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites. -
NAACP founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools. -
Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks was arrested
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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Little Rock 9
The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower. -
SNCC founded
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - an organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement. -
Greensboro 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 -
Freedom Riders
Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation. -
Ole miss integrated
James Meredith, the first African-American student enrolled at University of Mississippi (with NAACP President Mississippi, Medgar Evers) -
Martin Luther king Jr. was arrested.
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.” -
March in Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama is the most segregated city in the US. So king attempt the march which more than a thousand African-American children marched in Birmingham. Also hundreds of them got arrested as same as king. -
Medgar Evers was shot and killed
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March on Washington and"I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther KIng Jr.
More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill. -
John F. Kennedy was assassinated
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas,Texas -
Freedom Summer
SNCC and CORE tries to register African-American voters in Mississippi which this campaign would influenced congress to pass a voting rights act. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law. -
Malcom X assaination
Malcom x, human right activist was shot and killed in New York, by members of Nation of Islam -
Selma (Bloody Sunday)
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 Panthers
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
a law that prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin or sex. by President LBJ. -
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated
Robert Kennedy ,or Bobby, killed in California. shot by Sirhan Sirhan
