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Executive Order 9918
An executive order issued on July 26, 1948, that abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services. -
Emmet Till
14 year old Emmett Till was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who was a cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, Till was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, and dumped in a river. -
Rosa Parks
In Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey the bus drivers order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. -
Greensboro Four
Four black freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University, took seats at the segregated lunch counter of F. W. Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were refused service and sat peacefully until the store closed. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Program
Formed to capitalize on the success of a surge of sit-ins in Southern college towns, where black students refused to leave restaurants in which they were denied service based on their race. -
Freedom Riders
13 African-Americans and white civil rights activist went on freedom rides. it was a series of bus trips to protest against segregation in interstate bus terminals. -
Letter from Birmingham jail
Dr. Martin Luther Kind writes a letter from Birmingham jail after he was arrested for peacefully demonstrating against segregation and racial in Birmingham, Alabama. -
March on Washington
more than 200,000 Americans of all races gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally focused on jobs and freedom. organized by a bunch of civil rights and religious groups. -
Birmingham church bombing
A bomb explodes during Sunday morning in the 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama killing four black school girls. -
24th Amendment
The U.S. ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Malcom X's Assassnation
In New York, African American nationalist and religious leader Malcom X is assassinated by a rival black muslim while addressing his organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. -
Selma March
Martin Luther King Jr. led thosands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama to win the voting rights of African American in the south. -
Black Panthers
orginally known as the the black party for self defense.The Panthers eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group that called for the arming of all African Americans. -
Martin Luther King Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. is shot at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was shot one time by James Earl Ray in his neck and died an hour later at St. Joseph's Hospital. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
This act prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
