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21st Amendment
This act repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol . -
Lynching of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was 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. He then became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Brown v Board of Education
This declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
White Citizens Council
The Citizens' Councils were an associated network of white supremacist, extreme right, organizations in the United States, concentrated in the South. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. This was in Alabama -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Martin Luther King House Bombing
Martin Luther King Jr.'s house was bombed by segregationists in retaliation for the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycot. -
SCLC Founded
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr., had a large role in the American civil rights movement. -
Eisenhower sends in Federal Troops
Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock during the Central High School intergration crisis. -
SNCC Formed
This was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at an April 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University. -
Greensboro Sit Ins
The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South. -
White mob attacks federal marshals in Montgomery
The Government acted after a mob of white persons attacked a racially mixed group of bus riders in Montgomery, Ala. The disorders lasted two hours. At least twenty of the riders were beaten. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 -
Albany Georgia "failure"
The Albany Movement is deemed by some as a failure due to its unsuccessful attempt at desegregating public spaces in Southwest Georgia -
Bailey v Patterson
That no State may require racial segregation of interstate or intrastate transportation facilities has been so well settled that it is foreclosed as a litigable issue, and a three-judge court was not required to pass on this case -
MLK goes to a Birmingham Jail
Jenkins issued a blanket injunction against "parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing and picketing." Leaders of the campaign announced they would disobey the ruling -
Kennedy sends in Federal Troops
President Kennedy sent military riot-control units to bases near Birmingham -
Equal Pay Act
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
De La Beckwith, at age 42 killed NAACP and civil rights leaders Medgar Evers after he got home in Jackson -
March on Washington
The event was aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech. -
Bombing of a church in Birmingham
This was when a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Assassination of JFK
Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. The event was public so many people saw this awful scene. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Killing of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner
These murders were known as the Freedom Summer murders. These three activists were abuducted and murdered in Mississipi during the Civil Rights Movement. -
Civil Rights act of 1964
This act ended segregation in public places and banned employement discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. This was very important to help the African Americans. -
Assassination of Malcom X
Malcolm X was shot before he was about to deliver a speech about his new organization called the Organization of Afro-American Unity. -
Selma to Montgomery March
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Black Panthers Formed
The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. -
Loving v Virginia
Civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage. -
Minneapolis Riots
This Riot was when racial tension in North Minneapolis erupted along Plymouth Avenue in a series of acts of arson, assaults, and vandalism. -
Detroit Riots
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot was the bloodiest race riot in the "Long, hot summer of 1967". -
MLK Assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that sent shock waves reverberating around the world. -
Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight PDT at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He had just won the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election.
