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Executive Order 9981
This order ended racial discrimination in the U.S. Armed Forces, leading to the end of segregation there. -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till
He was a 14 year old black male from Chicago who was murdered in Mississippi after flirting with a white woman. -
Rosa Parks
She refused to move out of her seat for a white passenger, and this along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, became important symbols for the Civil Rights Movement. -
SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed on this date, they are an African-American civil rights organization. -
Little Rock Nine
After nine black children were registered to go to a white school after the Brown v. Board of Education case, they could only get in after the intervention of Eisenhower. -
Woolworth Sit-Ins
A series of non-violent protests which eventually led to the store removing the segregation policy. -
SNCC
A civil rights group that organized sitting in at lunch counters and other protests at segregated public facilities such as libraries, parks, swimming pools, and movie theaters. -
Freedom Rides
These were led by civil rights activists who rode into the south in the 1960's to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. -
Bull Connor Uses Fire Hoses on Birmingham Campaign
Led by MLK Jr., it was a nonviolent action where kids marched down the city streets and got attention from the white civil forces who arrested them. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
A letter written by MLK Jr. that said nonviolent resistance to racism is the right path. The summary of this was that they needed to gain equal civil rights with whites, and that people have a moral obligation to break unjust laws to get them removed. -
I Have a Dream
MLK Jr. gave an inspirational speech during the March on Washington that was a defining event in the American Civil Rights Movement. -
March on Washington
This is where MLK Jr. gave his "I Had a Dream" speech, where he rallied hundreds of thousands of people. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
It was an act of white supremacist terrorism at an African-American church. -
24th Amendment
This amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
These civil right workers were shot by members of the Ku Klux Klan. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
It ended unequal use of voter registration requirements. -
Malcolm X Assassinated
After leaving the Nation of Islam group, he was assassinated by three of its members. -
Bloody Sunday
It was a march at the Alabama State Capitol where the Alabama state troopers assualted the peaceful protesters. -
Los Angeles Race Riots 1965
After black citizens in LA saw an arrest they believed was racially motivated they broke out into riots. -
Executive Order 11246
It prevented buisnesses from discriminating in hiring on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or nationality. -
James Meredith
He was the first African-American student admitted to the University of Mississippi. -
Founding of the Black Panthers
This organization was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States during the Civil Rights era. -
Loving v. Virginia
It ruled that prohibiting marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored" was unconstitutional. -
MLK Assassination
The Civil Rights leader was assassinated. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
It provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or nationality, and made it a federal crime to interfere with anyone by reason of their race, color, religion, or nationality. -
Voting Rights Act of 1991
It limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination. -
1992 Los Angeles Riots
It was a series of riots, lootings, arsons and civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles. -
Rosa Parks Died
This role model of civil rights died.
