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U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional, -
He was visiting family in Money, Mississippi, and the 14-year-old, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for "allegedly" flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a caucasian passenger on a city bus. She refused to move to give her seat to a non-coloured rider, she was taken to jail and she was later bailed out by a local civil rights leader. -
Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school.