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The KKK is a racist group of hateful people who both discriminated and killed black people.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites
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This group of African Americans made huge strides to fight for African Americans rights.
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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After two years that had passed since brown vs board of education the judge ordered the new Orleans parish school board to design an effective way to desegregate the new Orleans public schools.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower.
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When coming down the steps in a church a bomb suddenly went off killing 4 little innocent girls.
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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He was the first black student to attend college at the university of Mississippi.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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MLK wrote some letters while he was in jail about how racist and how the way that they treat black people from white people is disgusting he also talks a lot about god in it.
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The reason i put him on this list with Malcolm x is because he worked in the NAACP as a secretary.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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Malcolm X was hold a sermon at his local mosque where he was shot 15 times to death
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis
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Micheal Donald was lynched after walking home from school who was held at gun point and told to get in a car.
