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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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Broke baseballs color barrier and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers
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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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fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entranceway at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation
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In March 1960, students from Augusta's historically black Paine College initiated the direct action phase of the city's Civil Rights movement when they organized sit-ins at area department stores.
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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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Ruby Bridges walks into William J. Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.
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March challenged forms of racial segregation in cities
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Freedom riders begin a bus ride through the South to protest segregation.
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In July 1962, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its annual convention in Atlanta.
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Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham protesting in the “most segregated city in America.”
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MLK writes the Brimingham letter while in jail.
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More than 250,000 people, march on Washington to demand immediate passage of the civil rights bill.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the premier legislation for Civil Rights into law.
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Malcolm X is shot in Audubon, Ballroom.
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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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The Watts Riot, which raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage, was both the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights era.
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Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded the “Black Power” political group known as the Black Panthers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis.
