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Plessy vs Ferguson
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by a multi-racial group of activists in New York, N.Y. Initially, the group called themselves the National Negro Committee. Founders Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villiard and William English Walling led the call to renew the struggle for civil and political liberty. -
Executive order 8802
signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. It also set up the Fair Employment Practice Committee -
Brown vs Board of education
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools. -
Emmitt Till Murdered
Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested. -
Bus Boycot
The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins. -
SCLC
MLK and others establish SCLC -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower. -
Greenboro Sit-In
4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store. -
Executive order 10925
President Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925, prohibiting discrimination in federal government hiring on the basis of race, religion or national origin and establishing The President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity , the EEOC. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation. -
MLK arrested
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.” -
I have a dream speech
More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill. -
Bomb killed 4 innocent girls
4 girls at the church in Birmingham were killed by the blast of a bomb -
Lyndon B. Johnson Signs
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law. -
MLK accepts Nobel Peace Prize
for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. -
Malcolm X
Assassinated at the Audobon Ballroom -
Selma march
A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins. -
Literacy Tests
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests. -
Black Panther
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers. -
Loving v. Virginia
In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting interracial marriage was unconstitutional. Sixteen states that still banned interracial marriage at the time were forced to revise their laws. -
Mlk assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis. -
Fair Housing Act
Johnson signs the Fair Housing Act -
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert Kennedy
