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Plessy v. Ferguson
This was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to support the doctrine "separate but equal" -
The Integration of Major League Baseball
This is a debut day of Jackie Robinson ,who was the first African American to join in the Major League Baseball,that integrated baseball and broke a sixty year ban against African American baseball players. -
The Integration of the Armed Forces
President Truman placed an order,Executive Order 9981,that issued to abolish discrimination "on the basis of race,color,religion or national origin" in the U.S. Armed Forces,which led to the end of segregation in the military. -
Sweatt v. Painter
A U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
The Bus Boycott of Montgomery, Alabama
Was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. As a result a woman,Rosa Parker,refused to give her seat to a white passenger which was a starting point in the Civil Rights Movement. -
The Integration of Little Rock High School
Where Little Rock High School students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus,after the "Little Rock Nine" enrolled,which were the first African Americans to enroll in a 'whites only' school. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
Enacted September 9, 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
The Freedom Rides of 1960
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions on the Civil Rights Movement. -
The Greensboro Four
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960,where 4 African-Americans sat in a 'all whites restaurant "and remain there ,which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
The Integration of the University of Mississippi
On September 30, 1962, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
The Integration of the University of Alabama
After the case of Brown v. The Board of Education,integration in schools were spreading.But Governor George Wallace stood at the door of the University of Alabama to prevent two African-American students from enrolling at the school. -
The March on Washington
The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
The 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act prohibited discrimination based on race,color,religion,or ethnic origin in public places,and all places of employment doing business with the federal government or engaged in interstate commerce. -
The Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist.He was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans.He was assassinated on February 21, 1965, In New York by Black Muslims. -
The March on Selma, Alabama
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama where Martin Luther King, Jr.’s participation raised awareness of the difficulties faced by black voters, and the need for a national Voting Rights Act. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4. -
The Passage of Title lX
Title IX of the Education Amendments is enacted by Congress and is signed into law by Richard Nixon.It prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving any type of federal financial aid such as sports. -
The Appointment of the First Woman Justice of the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who served from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Court. -
The Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama
The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009.He was the first African-American to be elected as President of the U.S. -
The Elimination of Combat Restriction for Women
The Combat Exclusion Policy was lifted as of January 24, 2013.Both men and women are eligible to serve in front line combat and complete combat operations.The various service branches were given until January 2016 to implement changes and submit requests to exclude specific Military Occupational Specialties from the ban being lifted. Panetta further said that initial implementation plans were to be submitted to him by May 15, 2014.
