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Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln frees American slaves in the South -
Ku Klux Klan
(KKK) Tennesse is formed to fight against rights for African American. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Court decides having seperate facilities for white and black people is illegal -
NAACP
National Assosciation for the Advancement of Coloured People is founded to fight racist discrimination. -
Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka
Court says having seperate schools for black and white students is not legal -
Emmett Till case
An African-American boy, aged 14, is killed for 'wolf whistling' at a white woman. His murderers are identified but go free. -
Bus boycott Montogmery
Rosa Parks starts the boycott when she refuses to give up her bus seat for a white man. -
Freedom Rides
Were civil rights activist 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. -
Freedom Schools
In the summer of 1964, forty-one Freedom Schools opened in the churches, on the back porches, and under the trees of Mississippi -
Bloody Sunday
This march went down in history as Bloody Sunday for the violent beatings state troopers inflicted on protesters as they attempted to march peacefully from Selma Alabama, to the state capital Montgomery -
Voting Rights Act
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. It also allowed federal examiners to review voter qualifications and federal observers to monitor polling places. -
Fair Housing Act
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin. -
Assasination of Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray is convicted of the murder in 1969.
