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Plessy v. Ferguson
Very popular constitutional case of the US supreme court. Upheld the state for racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine "separate but equal" -
Formation of NAACP
NAACP or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A bi-racial association in order to advance the amount of justice for colored people. -
Brown v. BOE of Topeka
The Brown vs. Board of Education was a supreme court case, the court declared state laws that segregated school between the white and the blacks were unconstitutional. -
Integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
Nine black students were finally enrolled into what used to be an all white school.The school was in Little Rock Arkansas In September of 1954. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A political and social protest campaign. It was against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery Alabama. Rosa Park was famous for being arrested for not getting out of her seat and speaking up against this issue. -
Formation of SCLC
SCLC or The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was an African American civil rights organization. The first present of this group was Martin Luther King Jr. This had a large role in the US Civil Rights Movement. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957, enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
Boynton v. Virginia
Boynton vs.Virginia was a decision by the Supreme Court. The case overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites only". Bruce Boynton, a student board a bus on December 20, 1958. Later in the 1960s this case was taken to the court. -
Greensboro Sit-In
The Greensboro sit ins were a series of protests that were non violent. They took place in Greensboro North Carolina in 1960. It was from February 1 to July 25 1960. It led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Formation of SNCC
SNCC, or The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a pretty important organization during the civil rights movement. It emerged from a meeting of students, which was organized by Ella Baker, and held at Shaw University in April 1960. -
First Freedom Ride
When seven African Americans and six whites took a public bus together from Washington D.C. to Deep parts of the South. This was to test the result of the Boynton v Virginia Supreme Court Case, which ruled unsegregated bus rides were unconstitutional -
James Meredith enrolls in Ole Miss
In late September 1962, after a legal battle, African-American man, James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Chaos briefly broke out on the "Ole Miss" campus, with riots. Unfortunately ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order. -
Birmingham Protests
The Birmingham protests were a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference or the SCLC to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. -
24th Amendment Passes
Before the 24th Amendment passed, citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. This fee was called a poll tax. On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Malcolm X leads the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X, original name Malcolm Little was an African American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Malcolm X assassinated
On Feb. 21, 1965, the former Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X was shot and killed by assassins identified as Black Muslims as he was about to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. He was 39. -
Selma March
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Black Panthers founded
The Black Panther Party or the BPP was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with international chapters operating in the United States -
MLK Jr. assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 defines housing discrimination as the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin”. Title VIII of this Act is commonly referred to as the Fair Housing Act of 1968. -
Robert F. Kennedy assassinated
On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized.
