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The U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the racist policy of segregation by legalizing “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites.
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Robinson breaks the color barrier by being the first black to play major league baseball in modern times
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Pres. Truman issues executive order requiring integrated units in the armed forces
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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimous decision that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery City Bus and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins.
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The Little Rock 9 enter Central High School as federal troops oversee the situation sent by President Eisenhower
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4 black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter and started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s store.
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Meredith became the first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Meredith's admission is regarded as a pivotal moment in the history of civil rights in the United States.
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4 black girls are killed by bomb planted in church in Birmingham
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King and SCLC oppose local laws that support segregation. Riots, fire-bombing, and police are used against protestors
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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In response to white ministers who urge him to stop causing disturbances, King issues articulate statement of nonviolent resistance to wrongs of American society
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Head of Mississippi NAACP is shot outside his home
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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In first of more than 100 riots, Los Angeles black suburb erupts in riots, burning, looting, and 34 deaths
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assassination of Malcolm X
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A march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights begins.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law outlawing literacy tests
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Detroit Riot of 1967, series of violent confrontations between residents of predominantly African American neighborhoods of Detroit and the city’s police department that began on July 23, 1967, and lasted five days. The riot resulted in the deaths of 43 people, including 33 African Americans and 10 whites. Many other people were injured, more than 7,000 people were arrested, and more than 1,000 buildings were burned in the uprising
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis
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June 6, 1968, Kennedy was mortally wounded when shot with a pistol by Sirhan Sirhan,
