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Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
An American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
A landmark Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. -
Emmett Till Lynched
A 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store. -
Little Rock 9
A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. -
Greensboro Sit-In Movement
A series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina which led to the Woolworth department store chain remove its policy of racial segregation in the South. -
Ruby Bridges Attends School in New Orleans
The first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. -
Freedom Riders
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. -
James Meredith Enrolls at University of Mississippi
After troops took control, Meredith became the first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. -
Letter From Birmingham Jail
The Letter from Birmingham Jail is an open letter written on by Martin Luther King Jr. -
University Of Alabama Desegregated
John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was killed. After a funeral in Jackson, he was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. -
March On Washington
More than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
An act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Freedom Summer Project
A voter registration project in Mississippi, a larger effort by civil rights groups such as the CORE and SNCC to expand black voting in the South. -
24th Amendment
The United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
A landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Martin Luther King wins Nobel Peace Prize
The 35-year-old civil rights leader is the youngest winner of the prize that Dr. Alfred Nobel instituted since the first was awarded in 1901. -
March on Selma
Three protest marches, held in 1965 along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Of 1965
This act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states. -
Martin Luther King Assassinated
An American clergyman and civil rights leader had been fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
