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U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional -
an African American, 14 year old boy from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
It was an act where African Americans would go into diners , or businesses and sit in the " whites only " section . -
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States -
an open letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. -
A huge march held in Washington DC , to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -
prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
prohibits any poll tax in elections for federal officials -
three protest marches, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment