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Brown v. Board of Education
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
Little Rock NIne
First day of classes at Central High, the Arkansas National Guard was sent to block the black students’ entry into the high school. Later that month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. -
John F. Kennedy elected president
American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
I Have A Dream Speech
A speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated the literacy test that had disqualified many voters and stated that the federal examiners could enroll voters who had been denied suffrage by local officials -
Black Panthers
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded this political party to fight police brutality in the ghetto. -
Martin Luther King, Jr is assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. -
AIM movement protest on Alcatraz Island
The Alcatraz Occupation lasted for nineteen months and was forcibly ended by the U.S. government. The Occupation of Alcatraz had a direct effect on federal Indian policy and, with its visible results, established a precedent for Indian activism. -
Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee incident began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
