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Public schools start to integrate
Public schools started to integrate and now are still integrated. -
Brown vs. Board of education
The Supreme Court decides that Public Schools should integrate and passes the law that allows schools to have African American kids into their school. They found that the segregation of schools was unconstitutional and in violation of the fourteenth amendment, so they changed the law about public schools. -
Schools start to integrate more
A group of African American students attended their first day at Clinted high school making it the first integrated high school. One student, Cain was the first African American to graduate from an integrated high school. The group of students who attended here was called the Clinton 12. -
Little Rock Central High School
The group of African American students that attended Central high school was blocked from entering by Arkansas police and then later escorted in by some people in the US military. -
William Franz Elementary
6-year old named Ruby Bridges is the first black student to attend Willian Frantz Elementary in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ruby is now an activist for civil rights. She has written three books which include Through My Eyes and more. -
Desegregation starts to happen in Mississippi
A big riot starts, when the Supreme Court orders the University of Mississippi to accept James Meredith, a black student, to the school. On his second day there he was shot and taken to the hospital but he survived and became a civil rights lawyer. -
Stand at the school doors
George Wallace, a governer from Alabama stands at the school doors preventing any African American students from enrolling. -
Education rights in Mississippi
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic forms in April and pushes for more voter registration and education rights. The MFD tried to register 17,000 people but only 1200 were successful.